Need to combine lots of files in a directory

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I ve got 50 to 60 files in a directory that I need to concatenate into a single file on a regular basis     I thought about using notepad   thinking there was probably a plug-in that would help but haven t been able to find one   Any other thoughts

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Use the Windows  copy  command   C  Users dan gt help copy     Copies one or more files to another location       COPY   D    V    N    Y    -Y    Z    L    A    B   source   A    B              source   A    B            destination   A    B          source       Specifies the file or files to be copied         A           Indicates an ASCII text file         B           Indicates a binary file         D           Allow the destination file to be created decrypted       destination  Specifies the directory and or filename for the new file s          V           Verifies that new files are written correctly         N           Uses short filename  if available  when copying a file with                     a non-8dot3 name         Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an                    existing destination file         -Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an                    existing destination file         Z           Copies networked files in restartable mode         L           If the source is a symbolic link  copy the link to the                     target                    instead of the actual file the source link points to       The switch  Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable      This may be overridden with  -Y on the command line   Default is     to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from     within a batch script         To append files  specify a single file for destination  but      multiple files for source  using wildcards or file1 file2 file3      format       So in your case   copy   txt destination txt  Will concatenate all  txt files in alphabetical order into destination txt  Thanks for asking  I learned something new

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I know this is an old post  but I found it and then found someone who suggested Total Mail Converter   I was able to convert my folder with 2k  msg files into  txt   It also allows you to convert into PDF and other popular formats   It s a great tool that I am glad someone suggested as it will save me several days   FYI - My project is combining the  msg files into one text file so that I can run a script to extract certain information from the files  ie  email and links    Instead of 2k files  I can work with one

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I used this script on windows powershell   ForEach   f in get-ChildItem   sql    type   f   gt  gt  all sql

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you could use powershell script like this   sb   new-object System Text StringBuilder  foreach   file in Get-ChildItem -path  C  temp xx           content   Get-Content -Path  file fullname      sb Append  content    Out-File -FilePath  C  temp xx c txt  -InputObject  sb toString

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Yes   A plugin is available named  combine  for notepad   Link      Combine Plugin for Notepad    You can install it via plugin manager  Extra benifit of this plugin is   You can maintain the sequence of files while merging  it s according to the sequence of opened files are opened  see tabs

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If you like to do this for open files on Notepad    you can use Combine plugin  http   www scout-soft com combine

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Assuming these are text files  since you are using notepad    and that you are on Windows  you could fashion a simple batch script to concatenate them together   For example  in the directory with all the text files  execute the following   for  f in    txt  do type   f   gt  gt  combined txt   This will merge all files matching   txt into one file called combined txt   For more information   http   www howtogeek com howto keyboard-ninja keyboard-ninja-concatenate-multiple-text-files-in-windows

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In windows I use a simple command in a batch file and I use a Scheduled Task to keep all the info in only one file  Be sure to choose another path to the result file  or You will have duplicate data    type PathToOriginalFiles   Extension   AnotherPathToResultFile NameOfTheResultFile Extension  If you need to join lots of csv files  a good thing to do is to have the header in only one file with a name like 0header csv  or other name  so that it will allways be the first file in list  and be sure to program all the other csv files to not contain an header

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There is a convenient third party tool named FileMenu Tools  that gives several right-click tools as a windows explorer extension   One of them is Split file   Join Parts  that does and undoes exactly what you are looking for   Check it at http   www lopesoft com en filemenutools  Of course  it is windows only  as Unixes environments already have lots of tools for that

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copy   txt all txt   This will concatenate all text files of the folder to one text file all txt  If you have any other type of files  like sql files  copy   sql all sql

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