On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:30:03PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote:
[snip]

> wilsont at galileo:~/tmp$ cat file1 >> cat file2 >> cat file3 > newfile

Never seen it done *that* way before!  How about:

$ cat file1 file2 file3 > newfile

?

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Aren't you, at this point, cutting down a California Redwood using a
banana *and* a particle accelerator?
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