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.TH FADCAT 1 "3 January 2002"
.SH NAME
fadcat \- Concatenate FAD files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "fadcat -V"
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.B fadcat
[ 
.B \-v
] [
.B \-o
.I outfile
] [
.I infile ... 
] [
.B \-g 
.I pattern
]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This man page documents 
.I fadcat 
version MARKER_PATCHLEVEL.
.PP
.I Fadcat
is a Perl 
(see
.I perl\fR(1))
script which takes a list of FAD files, such as are generated by
by 
.I mkfad\fR(1),
and generates a File Attribute Database (See 
.I fad\fR(5))
which is a concatenation of the input files, in much the same manner
as 
.I cat\fR(1)).
By default it reads from standard input and 
writes the database to standard output.
.I Fadcat
can read and write plain files or files compressed with 
either
.I compress\fR(1)
or 
.I gzip\fR(1). 
All that is necessary to use this feature is to specify
file names with suitable extensions.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP 25
.B \-V
Print the version number and exit.
.TP
.B \-o
Writes the database to 
.I outfile\fR.
The default is to write to standard output.
.TP
.B \-v
Extra informational messages will be displayed while
.I fadcat
is running.
.TP
.B \-g \fIpattern\fR
.I grep\fR(1) 
for the 
.I pattern
on the throughput.
.PD
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.SH EXAMPLES
The following command merges two FAD files, saving the result:
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.nf
fadcat file1.fad file2.fad > fad3.fad
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.fi
.PP
This is equivalent to either of the following:
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.nf
fadcat -o fad3.fad - file2.fad < file1.fad
fadcat -o fad3.fad file1.fad file2.fad 
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.SH FILES
See
.I fad\fR(5).
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.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See
.I fad\fR(5).
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.SH DIAGNOSTICS
All messages relate to file access.
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.SH CAVEATS
None.
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.SH SEE ALSO
perl(1), fad(5), find(1), faddiff(1) compress(1), gzip(1), cat(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
Alexis Huxley
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.SH BUGS
See also
.I fad\fR(5).
.PP
Bug reports and queries should be reported to
.B fad-support@danae.demon.co.uk\fR.
.PP
For the latest release of the FAD tools,
visit
.B http://www.danae.demon.co.uk/software/fad/\fR.
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.SH COPYRIGHT & DISTRIBUTION POLICY
Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Alexis Huxley
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
.PP
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.