display filename followed by content without interaction

If the output from more is acceptable as it is, just pipe it through cat:

more * | cat

That will do away with the "more" prompts.

Or you can get a bit more control over the display using printf in a one-liner:

for fn in *; do printf "::::::\n$fn\n:::::\n"; cat "$fn"; done

or as script:

for fn in $*; 
do 
   printf "vvvvvvvvvv\n$fn\n^^^^^^^^^^\n"
   cat "$fn"
done

You can do a few things.

head and tail are both spec'd to display the first/last ten lines of a file by default - but if called w/ multiple arguments will do that for all and display the filenames for each. And, of course, for each, you can use the -n[num] argument to specify a number of lines other than the default ten that you would like to display. I assume your CTRL-C problem was related to the -f option - which would instruct tail to follow a file - you probably should just leave that out.

Another thing you might do - which will result in output a little different than in the question, but which you might still like, is...

grep -F '' ./*files

grep is also spec'd to display the filename for its matches when it is given multiple filename arguments - but grep does it at the head of every line. Like

seq 10 >nums.txt; grep -F '' /dev/null nums.txt

...which prints...

nums.txt:1
nums.txt:2
nums.txt:3
nums.txt:4
nums.txt:5
nums.txt:6
nums.txt:7
nums.txt:8
nums.txt:9
nums.txt:10

...and highlighted on my terminal. The /dev/null thing is just a little trick to force the multiple file arg behavior even when working with only a single file, and grep -F '' matches every line - even blank ones.

And here's head /dev/null nums.txt:

==> /dev/null <==

==> nums.txt <==
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

tail's output is identical in this case - but, again, both utilities only print so many lines of a file.

With the latest version of GNU sed you can use the F command like:

sed -s 1F ./*files

...or if you wanted a little border around the filename...

sed -se '1!b;i\\n---' -e 'F;i\---\n' nums.txt

...which does like...

---
nums.txt
---

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Or if you wanted to get adventurous you could do...

tar -c ./*files | tr -s \\0 | cut -d '' -f1,2,13 | tr '\0' '\n'

...but that's probably not practical.

I would use awk:

awk 'FNR==1{print "::::\n"FILENAME"\n::::"}1' *