unix - how to deal with too many args for cat

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Published on 2010-04-30T20:09:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 20:17 UTC
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I have a bunch of files in a directory, each with one line of text. I want to cat all of these files together (all the one liners) into a single, large file. However, when I use cat there are too many arguments. How can I get around this?

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