Re: help with joining files

[James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>]

I've discovered that ls -tr is what I need to get the files listed in the 
right time sequence (time of creation). ls -t gives, for example:

Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.4_Rondo_-_Andante.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.3_Minuetto.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.2_Allegro_con_spirito.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.1_Amoroso.mp3

while ls -tr gives:

Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.1_Amoroso.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.2_Allegro_con_spirito.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.3_Minuetto.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.4_Rondo_-_Andante.mp3

(assuming the directory where the command is issued contains only these 
files). Presently, since those are just excerpts and there are many more 
files in that dir, I am navigating to that dir and doing ls -tr 
>ls-tr_date.txt. I then go into that text file with an editor adding "cat" 
at the beginning of the piece, taking out carriage returns between 
movments, and adding >~/MyMusic/name-of-piece.mp3 at the end of the 
movement. Using the above output, this would look like;

cat Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.1_Amoroso.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.2_Allegro_con_spirito.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.3_Minuetto.mp3
Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275_Mvt.4_Rondo_-_Andante.mp3 
>~/MyMusic/Boccherini_-_Quintet_for_Strings_in_E_G.275.mp3

Then I cut and paste this into an xterm wherein I have navigated to the 
dir containing the files, then hit return. This is as streamlined as I've 
been able to get with this so far. Still time-consuming and a bit 
cumbersome, but I've progressed a little.

James

PS Again, the above excerpts, where movement number is actually given, are 
exceptions to the rule. I just selected output that has numbers since I 
thought it would more readily demonstrative of what I'm doing.
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