I do not think 1Gb is a problem for a Perl oneliner:

perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV;select $to}" destination. +txt source1.txt source2.txt

The -p print each line, -l does automatic lines handling; the BEGIN block shift @ARGV using that file as destination, select print everything to the destination.

PS: if you want something that can print to a destination file or to STDOUT you can modify the above in:

perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV and select $to if $ARGV[0]}" # to STDOUT perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV and select $to if $ARGV[0]}" + 0 src1 src2 # to file perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV and select $to if $ARGV[0]}" + dst src1 src2

PPS: maybe this is more intellegible

perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV and select $to unless $ARGV[ +0] eq 'STDOUT'}" # to STDOUT perl -ple "BEGIN{open $to,'>',shift @ARGV and select $to unless $ARGV[ +0] eq 'STDOUT'}" STDOUT src1 src2

L*

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In reply to Re: Append big files -- oneliner by Discipulus
in thread Append big files by kepler

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