Questions on using pr and cat...

[Derek E. Terveer]

rcte2p at menudo.uh.edu (Paul Stephen Sears) writes:

>I have some questions about pr and cat.  I want to combine a number of
>small text files into a single file.  [...] one page long.  I thought of
>using cat, but the files run together and I wanted a way to identify
>each new file.

You could try the following:

pr * | uniq


This will provide you with headers for each file, but uniq will filter out
superfluous line feeds at the end of each file...
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