On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:30:03PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote: > 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. Freakier still: $ cat file1 >> cat file2 >> cat file3 $ cat cat A B C I grok why a file named cat is being created (FYI, your original example creates an empty file named cat in addition to creating newfile) and why it contains the A and the B, but it doesn't seem like the C should be there. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+