multiple files to be attached

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi all,

Am in need of attaching multiple files of similar pattern?
For example the files like
a1.txt
b1.txt
c1.txt
can be reffered as *1.txt
Can anyone help me in attaching the files of similar pattern without mentioning their names completely.

2 
cat *1.txt > new_file

or

paste *1.txt > new_file
3

Hi,
you can acheive that with the following command

$ ls *1.txt|zip source -@
  adding: a1.txt (deflated 90%)
  adding:  c1.txt (deflated 25%)
  adding:  d1.txt (deflated 25%)

thanks,
venkat

4

Thanx but i need to attach in the mail as attachments