You can use cat command to display multiple file contents at once. You can use regular expressions for file names.
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## Create some files with content echo -e "hello\nworld" > myfile1.txt echo -e "welcome\ncloudaffaire" > myfile2.txt echo "this is a shell script" > myfile3.sh ## display contents of both the file at once cat myfile1.txt myfile2.txt ## returns ## hello ## world ## welcome ## cloudaffaire ## display contents of all files in current directory cat * ## returns ## hello ## world ## welcome ## cloudaffaire ## this is a shell script ## display contents of all files with .txt extention in current dir cat *.txt ## returns ## hello ## world ## welcome ## cloudaffaire |