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 ? -- Aren't you, at this point, cutting down a California Redwood using a banana *and* a particle accelerator? - Bernard El-Hagin, in CLPM