Subj : Re: Merging files...
To   : Andrea.Mariani@xspamp17.f403.n334.z
From : Laurent Jumet
Date : Fri Nov 30 2001 02:06 am

From: 1st_NAME.Lst_NAME@advalvas.be (Laurent Jumet)

Hello !

Andrea.Mariani@xspamp17.f403.n334.z2.fidonet.org wrote:

LJ>> COPY /B *.txt bigfile.txt
LJ>> This command doesn't sort the files; they are merged according to
LJ>> their order on the HardDisk, and 04 comes first, next is 10, next 01,
LJ>> and so on.

AM> I'd use the SELECT command. In your case:
AM> select /On copy [*.txt] bigfile.txt

    Finally, my brain remembered the best way to do that...:-)
    Obviously, I *knew* it, because I made Batch a few years ago for check
purposes:

=== Begin multichk.btm ===

Text | FOR %sign IN (@con) DO (c:\pgp\pgp %sign
%@findfirst[%sign.[csb][oyi][msn]] +batchmode +verbose=0 || goto fail)
c:\win3\command
c:\4\4dos
c:\io
c:\dblspace
Endtext
quit
:fail
beep
echo Attention! PGP n'a pas renvoy‚ l'errorlevel z‚ro... quit

=== End multichk.btm ===


    So the best way to sort and merge files could be:

DIR /B *.bin | FOR %i IN (@CON) DO (TYPE %i >> bigfile.bin)

    or

DIR /B *.bin | FOR %i IN (@CON) DO (copy /B bigfile.bin+%i)


    Is there a more convenient way than this?

Laurent Jumet - Point de Chat, LiŠge, BELGIUM
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