in reply to how to concatenate files

If that's really all you need to do, and if you're on Unix, I would just do 
cat file1 file2 ... filen > big_file

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Or in Perl, do it with the following zero-line program typed from your shell prompt. 
perl -pne '' file1 file2 ... filen > big_file

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See perlrun for details.

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Re^2: how to concatenate files
by thor (Priest) on Jan 20, 2005 at 04:39 UTC
    perl -pne '' file1 file2 ... filen > big_file
    Unless I'm missing something, the p flag is mutually inclusive of the n flag. That is to say that the n is redundant.

    thor

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      That could well be. Frankly, I'd gotten kind of used to typing it the other way so I didn't think to check.
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