Subj : Merging files...
To   : Laurent Jumet
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Nov 29 2001 09:33 pm

Hi Laurent.

27-Nov-01 16:44:46, Laurent Jumet wrote to All


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

 LJ> Hello ! I had a big problem I couldn't find out...:-)

 LJ> I wanted to merge files, let's say file01.txt file02.txt
 LJ> ....file10.txt in one only file bigfile.txt

 LJ> Best way is

 LJ> COPY /B *.txt bigfile.txt

 LJ> Providing the destination is not a directory, all files are
 LJ> appended.

 LJ> But...:-) This command doesn't sort the files; they are merged
 LJ> according to their order on the HardDisk, and 04 comes first, next
 LJ> is 10, next 01, and so on.

 LJ> I didn't find a convenient way to make that merging operation; how
 LJ> would you do yourself?

echos>bigfile.txt
dir /b *.txt | for x in @con do copy /b bigfile.txt+%%x

 -=> Bye <=-

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