File manipulation ?

[Erich Carlson]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 11:25 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to combine a number of
> text files into one file?
> 
> I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files
> that I would like to combine into one file containing
> all of that text.  Nothing I have tried is acceptable
> to open office?

have you tried "cat file1 file2 > combinedfile