how to concatenate files

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Re: how to concatenate files by BUU (Prior) on Jan 20, 2005 at 02:10 UTC
`perl -pe1`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: how to concatenate files by thor (Priest) on Jan 20, 2005 at 04:45 UTC
To elaborate on BUU's solution: `perl -pe1 file1 file2 file3 ... > newfile` [download] thor `Feel the white light, the light within Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: how to concatenate files by cpiety (Novice) on Jan 20, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
thanks for the help. I have over a thousand files to concatenate together so I was hoping to do this in a loop. I created a file containing all the file names that I want to concatenate....hmm?	[reply]
Re: how to concatenate files by Errto (Vicar) on Jan 20, 2005 at 02:12 UTC
If that's really all you need to do, and if you're on Unix, I would just do `cat file1 file2 ... filen > big_file` [download] Or in Perl, do it with the following zero-line program typed from your shell prompt. `perl -pne '' file1 file2 ... filen > big_file` [download] See perlrun for details.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: how to concatenate files by thor (Priest) on Jan 20, 2005 at 04:39 UTC
perl -pne '' file1 file2 ... filen > big_file Unless I'm missing something, the p flag is mutually inclusive of the n flag. That is to say that the n is redundant. thor `Feel the white light, the light within Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come`	[reply]
Re^3: how to concatenate files by Errto (Vicar) on Jan 20, 2005 at 04:44 UTC
That could well be. Frankly, I'd gotten kind of used to typing it the other way so I didn't think to check.	[reply]
Re: how to concatenate files by data64 (Chaplain) on Jan 20, 2005 at 03:48 UTC
How do I join two files side by side? might be of interest.	[reply]
Re^2: how to concatenate files by holli (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2005 at 07:46 UTC
I need to append to text file basically handles the same issue. For more than two files read Re^2: I need to append to text file. holli, regexed monk	[reply]