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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is there any way to cat multiple files and show filenames? Post 302929177 by Corona688 on Thursday 18th of December 2014 11:11:37 AM
Old 12-18-2014
That's clever. The /dev/null forces it to be more than one filename, so names aren't omitted.
 

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