Linking two files together

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:41 -0700, Rector, David wrote:
> Is it possible to use cat so the multiple files will pipe to something
> that my app can open. E.g. my apps don't operate on the standard input
> stream, they need to open the file, then scan back and forth within
> the file.

[Kindly don't top-post on this list]

Pipes are sequential. If the app needs to seek on the file ("scan back
and forth" as you put it), then a pipe is no good to you, unless of
course it just creates a copy of its input in a file, which takes you
right back where you started.

poc