This one is more for me to remember, but it may benefit someone trying to accomplish the same in DOS.
A task I frequently have to do is concatenate a large number of text files under windows, which up until now I’ve done using:
c:\type *.txt > output
This produces a single file called output with the contents of all text files combined together. Unfortunately, using this method, unless each text file ends in a new line, then the last line of each file is joined with the first line of the new file.
For example – consider two text files with the contents:
1
2
3
4
and
5
6
7
8
Running the above command would result in:
1
2
3
45
6
7
8
There’s a way around this though:
for %f in (*.txt) do type “%f” >> output & echo: >> output
This should save me a heap of time going through the output and manually adding new lines where needed! Hopefully it’ll help someone else reading this too..