Comments on: Keyboard Ninja: Concatenate Multiple Text Files in Windows

By: tsnt

tsnt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:53:18 +0000

for binary files:
copy /b file1+file2+file3+file4 outfile

By: tsnt

tsnt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:17:17 +0000

oh wait, I actually had a question: Does this work for binary files?
If yes, would this work for binary files split under osx/bash with the built-in split command?

I am trying to transfer a 6GB iso to a networkless winpc through a FAT fs external HD. 4GB limit… eugh. Thus, split.

By: tsnt

tsnt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:15:20 +0000

A DOS hat would read:
” I H 8 B A S H ”
and on the backside, legal-print-size lettering:
“Wish I were BASH”
:]

By: zzzAdmin

zzzAdmin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:06:30 +0000

To get round the destination file ‘concat itself’ prob, I put all the .csv’s in one folder, and told dos to concat everything to one named .csv. DOS doesn’t concat the destination file as well, because it has an extension! :
copy /a output.csv
A DOS hat would be cool blue….

By: anon

anon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:09:43 +0000

Thank You!!!

You made my day!

By: Joris

Joris — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:46:37 +0000

Thank God for DOS… and you

By: Cyranix

Cyranix — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:01:25 +0000

This worked like a charm for me. However, you do NOT need to make the input and output be in two different file formats!

(for %f in (*.txt) do type “%f” >> output.tx_) & RENAME output.tx_ output.txt

Enjoy!

By: robin allen

robin allen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:22:09 +0000

Brilliant.

Had a problem with a load of .txt files that were output of a data-logger and this suggestion concatentated them just perfec’

Thanks

Old_Robin…

By: jason

jason — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:43:22 +0000

Maik Wiege – can you help me with your bat file example? I put this is a batch file and it did not work:

for %f in (*.htm) do newline “%f” >> output.txt
@echo off
type %1
echo.

my source files are *.htm and the output needs to be something like all.txt

I need a line break or something as there are 25,000 file that each have about 7 rows of html and i eventualy need to get them into a spreadsheet to manipulate them.

Before seeing this post, I had been using DOS like this: copy *.htm all.txt

the issue with that is that when I open them in Excel there is one cell with information from all 25,000 files in it rather than 25k rows of html.

By: Maik Wiege

Maik Wiege — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:45:18 +0000

I also had the problem, that my files had no new line at the end and I needed the files to be appended with one in between instead of writing the first line of the next file appended to the last line of the previous file..
What I did is simply write a new batch file stored in the same directory with this content:

@echo off
type %1
echo.

Save it with the name newline.bat and now run the for loop using the batch file instead of directly the type command:
for %f in (*.log) do newline “%f” >> output.txt

This worked perfectly for me…
Maik