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  • would this combine the files? Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 23:55
  • I want to combine the context of the file. e.g. file1.txt has line1 line2 file2.txt has line3 line4 I want to combine them into a new file that has line1 line2 line3 line4 Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 23:56
  • So pass the filenames to cat instead of print -l. Commented Aug 24, 2015 at 23:58
  • thats what I am currently doing. Is there a way to automate this. Please see the edit in the question, may be that would make it clear Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 0:00
  • This is not working for me. I have file names as variables in a list, the above code gives me error. I am accessing them as ${filenames[1,3]} but doing this only copies the content of 2nd file into the new file Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 0:14