Combining Files

Reading multiple files

The cat command is the go-to tool for looking at the contents of small files. If we send multiple files to the cat command, it’ll read them all in the specified order. Let’s try it. We first create two files in our current directory:

$ echo "Hello" > hello.txt

$ echo "Goodbye" > goodbye.txt

Now, let’s use the cat command to read both files:

$ cat hello.txt goodbye.txt

Run the commands on the terminal below.