2013-11-20 45 files, each containing some text. 40'000 words in total. cat * | wc 4621 40795 257743 The idea was to typeset them nicely and create a PDF or even printouts. It was just a quick look at it, today. Just a few minutes, as it was already late in the evening. You know how such things go ... Combining the files was perfectly easy: cat * >all (How would you have done that on Windows?) Because the file names contained important information that was missing now, I did it again: for i in * ; do echo $i; echo; cat $i; echo; echo; done >all (How would you have done that on Windows?) Then, I really wanted to know how much text 40'000 words are. Thus I gave it a quick try with troff: troff -ms all | dpost >all.pdf (How much more time would you have needed on Windows?) But ... well. I wasn't on my system. Here, was no Heirloom troff available. It was the groff thing here. I never really became used to grops(1). But I discovered that there is pdfroff(1) ... seems to be new. Thus: pdfroff -ms all >all.pdf The result: 200 pages! But the lines were so long. What about two columns: ed - all <all.pdf No, that was no real improvement. Let's rather increase the font size. ed - all <all.pdf Now it were even more pages but the text was much more readable. Why do I explain all this? It's because it was surprisingly im- pressive what could be done with few commands and little work. It was no more than a by-the-way session ... http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke