Or this one-liner (I am merging here all the a*.pl files in my current directory into out.txt): 
$ perl -pe '' a*.pl > out.txt

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Just a quick check on the number of lines and characters: 
$ wc out.txt
 186  583 4219 out.txt

$ wc  a*.pl
  11   27  187 a.pl
  35  125  719 add2.pl
  11   47  305 analyse_fable.pl
  25   95  502 any.pl
  24   99  532 any2.pl
  24   55  357 aoh.pl
  56  139 1617 array_hash.pl
 186  587 4219 total

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In reply to Re: Text merge concept in perl by Laurent_R
in thread Text merge concept in perl by Redsun

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