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