Linking two files together

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 07:30 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Can you elaborate on why you want this as opposed to to a hard link?
> i.e. what specific facility a hard link does _not_ give you that your
> proposal would?

A hard link just gives a specific file an extra name. The OP wants a
single name to refer to the concatenated contents of several files,
without having to copy them.

poc