On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 11:25 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Can someone tell me how to combine a number of > text files into one file? > > I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files > that I would like to combine into one file containing > all of that text. Nothing I have tried is acceptable > to open office? have you tried "cat file1 file2 > combinedfile