in reply to Combining files

Why do you want to do this? Will you ever want to separate them?

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Re^2: Combining files
by desemondo (Hermit) on Oct 03, 2009 at 05:23 UTC
    Not sure what Win's task is, but in my case, Due to a system upgrade at work, our log files got cut twice a day instead of once.
    Using the appending feature of copy was literally a 2 second fix to make the report look the same...
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      Which is great if the only files in the directory are the two halves of the log file. But I'd still use 

      copy log1+log2 log

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      The thing that has me intrigued is Wins

      combine all files in a folder, stacked one on top of another in a single file?

      Especially if there is any possibility of any binary files in that folder.

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      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
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