I was hoping you wouldn't say that
See, I figured there must be some trick or something, because when I simply add a new line like that (by opening in TextWrangler and hitting Enter at the end of the line), my output gets... weird.
This is a short example of what it was doing when I first posted.
FirstLine.txt:
Quote:
ProductID|Name|Price|Color
kids.txt:
Quote:
24234232|Thing|2.50|Red
24324242|Item|3.50|Blue
23423422|This|4.50|Black
cat FirstLine.txt kids.txt > readyToProcess.txt
Quote:
ProductID|Name|Price|Color24234232|Thing|2.50|Red
24324242|Item|3.50|Blue
23423422|This|4.50|Black
After adding the new line to FirstLine.txt, I try cat'ing again, but this time, the resulting readyToProcess.txt file looks like this:
Quote:
ProductID|Name|Price|Color
24234232|Thing|2.50|Red
24324242|Item|3.50|Blue
23423422|This|4.50|Black
So, it added the first line great - but why on earth would it throw an extra line break between all the rest of the lines in the file?