Less surprised

[Tony Arnold]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 23:35 -0700, JD wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > On 7/2/06, JD <xifilsuf at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I've just found out that 'less all* >> ball' in Ubuntu is just not gonna
> >> append all all* files into ball!
> >> So I use more.
> >> This is strange though.
> >
> > I guess what I find strange is that you're not using cat(1) for that. ;-)
> >
> Then why when I use more it works?
> To pipe it to cat is just redundant.

I think he means type 'cat all* >> ball'. There's no redundancy.

Regards,
Tony.
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