On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:41 -0700, Rector, David wrote: > Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something > that my app can open. E.g. my apps don't operate on the standard input > stream, they need to open the file, then scan back and forth within > the file. [Kindly don't top-post on this list] Pipes are sequential. If the app needs to seek on the file ("scan back and forth" as you put it), then a pipe is no good to you, unless of course it just creates a copy of its input in a file, which takes you right back where you started. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines