[Discuss] data recovery using Linux

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-09-01 11:31-0700 R. Langkamer wrote:

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> 	Remember those 60 pieces I cat'd together? Well somehow I removed the 
> partition I used to temporarily store the one big file made from them. Now, I 
> still have the 60 pieces, but I'm hoping there is a way to write a small 
> quick shell script to do the work for me, I just don't know how.
> 	I am using bash in Ubuntu 6.10 and all the files are named like 
> file-name.001. Seeing as there is only 60 to work with and the first one is 
> named like file-name.img, I was thinking I could use a loop in the shell 
> script to cat each file in numerical order and append it to the end of the 
> .img file. I've googled, but I haven't found anything that fits. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!

I suggest something like

cat file-name.img file-name.??[0-9] > concatanated.file

I used .??[0-9] rather than .??? to exclude the .img case (since that
belongs first and you don't want to repeat it), and I believe the .??[0-9]
glob should give you the cat order you want.

Alan
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