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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

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    Well, I suppose one could dub this a useless of use of Perl and simply do

    cat *.txt > output

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    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Or the dos version 
      copy /v B.txt A.txt

Or for multiple files

copy /v B.txt +C.txt A.txt

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