Re^2: Append Text Files

That worked BioLion. I don't quite understand the purpose of the second line from the bottom. It appears it goes through each line. Can you explain.

    while (<$fh>){ print $merge $_;}
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Thanks for your help. Dave

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Re^3: Append Text Files by BioLion (Curate) on Oct 09, 2009 at 17:44 UTC
It is! Basically you are just reading in each of the files to be merged, and printing out each line to the 'merge file'. This is probbaly not the most elegant way of doing this, but it gets the job done. I'll add some comments to my rush code to make things clearer... Just a something something...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Append Text Files by drodinthe559 (Monk) on Oct 09, 2009 at 19:01 UTC
It is clearer, but I'd like to do something similar to piping in using cat.	[reply]
Re^5: Append Text Files by BioLion (Curate) on Oct 10, 2009 at 10:56 UTC
BrowserUk has some good suggestions here. I generally think that one liners or 'elegant' (i.e. short) solutions often involve much obfuscation, so i try to avoid them. Wanting to concatenate files is a fairly common desire, and a super search will throw up a good few options. HTH. Just a something something...	[reply]
Re^4: Append Text Files by drodinthe559 (Monk) on Oct 09, 2009 at 17:52 UTC
I thought so but wasn't sure. I know its pretty easy to do with a Windows batch file. If you know how to make it more elegant, let me know.	[reply]