On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:12 PM, David Livesay wrote:

> Dear Scripters,
>
> I'd like to concatenate a bunch of files in a directory, in  
> sequential order. Since the files' names start with the same  
> characters, and end in dates, I can get a nice, ordered file list  
> from the ls command. What I'd like to do is to pipe this file list  
> to cat in such a way that it will concatenate the files, not just  
> the names.
>
> The filenames look like this:
>
> notes-20080401, notes-20080402, notes-20080403, notes-20080404,  
> notes-20080405, etc.
>
> And what I'd like to do is something like this:
>
> ls notes-* | [??] | cat > notes
>
> The [??] is the part I can't figure out.
>
cat notes-* > notes

-Mark