Hey everyone, I need to concatenate a series of text files into one large file. Knowing just enough to be dangerous, I ended up with the following test: wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file1 A wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file2 B wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file3 C wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file1 >> cat file2 >> cat file3 > newfile wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat newfile A B C wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ This is exactly what I want, but the redirection on the command line doesn't make sense to me. In fact, the order seems exactly opposite from what it seems like it should be. Can anyone elighten me? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.org W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com