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From: jerryp@tektronix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Little question on "cat"
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 16:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 16:09:39 1984
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>  Does anyone know why "cat" doesn't seem to have a flag...
>  to simply list files with an indication of the name of the file
>  preceeding the contents, separated from the data by a special
>  character or a newline or two... ?

It's not documented, but if you give head(1) more than one file to read,
it spits out a filename before each one, this way:

   % head foo.c foo.man
   ==> foo.c <==
     (contents of foo.c)

   ==> foo.man <==
     (contents of foo.man)
   %

Normally, head gives only the first ten lines... but something like
	% head -200 foo.c foo.man
should give a complete listing of any but the longest files.

--Jerry Peek, UNIX Training Instructor, Tektronix, Inc.
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