To expand on that, I do something which combines files specified by a glob into another. It is called like: 

$ catfiles.pl *.txt *.html > mynewfile.txt

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And it looks like: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
local $|=1; #turn of buffering

for ( map { glob $_ } @ARGV ) {
    open my $FH, '<', $_ or do {
        warn "Can't open '$_' for read, skipping: $!";
        next;
    }
    while (<$FH>) { print $_ }
    close $FH;
}

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Of course, on many systems cat *.txt *.html > mynewfile.txt works just fine, but this tool is useful because (a)I can extend it when I need to do more advanced work, and (b)Win32 doesn't have cat.

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In reply to Re^2: cat -ing Multiple files with Perl by radiantmatrix
in thread cat -ing Multiple files with Perl by neversaint

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