Re: How to concatenate the contents of two files?

This little script will take any number of files given on the command line and concatenate them into the first file given on the command line:

my $outfile = shift;
open OUT,">".$outfile or die "Could not open $outfile:$!\n";
print OUT $_ while <>;
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Command Line Version:

perl -e 'open OUT,">".shift;print OUT <>' output *.txt
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Re^2: How to concatenate the contents of two files? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2004 at 20:31 UTC
Commandline version: `perl -please .txt > output` [download] Well, I suppose one could dub this a useless of use of Perl and simply do `cat .txt > output` [download] Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to concatenate the contents of two files? by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 02, 2004 at 20:39 UTC
Or the dos version `copy /v B.txt A.txt Or for multiple files copy /v B.txt +C.txt A.txt` [download]	[reply] [d/l]