2014-05-20



How do you list the contents of a dozen? small text files to show
their contents to someone else?


You can use cat(1), but that won't show where the contents of one
file  ends and those of the next begins. Nor does it show how the
files are named. Actually, I shouldn't expect that,  because  cat
*concatenates*  files.  Thus,  there  should be no separators and
there should be no original file names.

Usually, I use:

     for i in *; do echo ==$i==; cat $i; done

(I type this each time, because it's  short  enough,  and  I  can
modify it on-the-fly, if I like to.)


In the debianforum.de, Cae presented another method:  [0]

     more * | cat

Although I don't like such ``|cat''  approaches  (or  rather  the
need  for  them)  much,  this  command  line  is  good  enough to
remember.

[0]  https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=148369&p=990934#p990934


http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>