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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Questions on using pr and cat...
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.214238.5754@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 11 Jan 91 21:42:38 GMT
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rcte2p@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...
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
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