Windows batch - concatenate multiple text files into one

Question

I need to create a script  which concatenates multiple text files into one  I know it s simple to use type   txt  gt  merged txt  But the requirement is to  quot concatenate files from same day into file day YYYY-DD-MM txt quot  I am a Linux user and Windows batch is hell for me  It s Windows XP

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Place all files need to copied in a separate folder, for ease place them in c drive.

Open Command Prompt - windows>type cmd>select command prompt.

You can see the default directory pointing - Ex : C:[Folder_Name]>. Change the directory to point to the folder which you have placed files to be copied, using ' cd [Folder_Name] ' command.

After pointing to directory - type 'dir' which shows all the files present in folder, just to make sure everything at place.

Now type : 'copy *.txt [newfile_name].txt' and press enter.

Done!

All the text in individual files will be copied to [newfile_name].txt

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You can do it using type    type C   lt Directory containing files gt    txt  gt  merged txt   all the files in the directory will be appendeded to the file merged txt

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In Win 7  navigate to the directory where your text files are  On the command prompt use  copy   txt combined txt  Where combined txt is the name of the newly created text file

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We can use normal CAT command to merge files     D   cat   csv   outputs csv

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cat  input files     output files    This works in PowerShell  which is the Windows preferred shell in current Windows versions  therefore it works  It is also the only version of the answers above to work with large files  where  type  or  copy  fails

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Try this    echo off set yyyy  date  6 4  set mm  date  3 2  set dd  date  0 2   set  p temp   Enter the name of text file    FOR  F  tokens   delims     x in  texto1 txt  texto2 txt  texto3 txt  DO echo   x  gt  gt  day  temp  txt   This code ask you to set the name of the file after  day   where you can input the date  If you want to name your file like the actual date you can do this   FOR  F  tokens   delims     x in  texto1 txt  texto2 txt  texto3 txt  DO echo   x  gt  gt  day  yyyy - mm - dd  txt

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I am reiterating some of the other points already made  but including a 3rd example that helps when you have files across folders that you want to concatenate   Example 1  files in the same folder    copy file1 txt file2 txt file3 txt file123 txt   Example 2  files in same folder    type   txt  gt  combined txt   Example 3  files exist across multiple folders  assumes newfileoutput txt doesn t exist    for  D  f in  folderName  DO type  f filename txt  gt  gt    newfileoutput txt

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Windows type command works similarly to UNIX cat  Example 1  Merge with file names  This will merge file1 csv  amp  file2 csv to create concat csv  type file1 csv file2 csv  gt  concat csv  Example 2  Merge files with pattern  This will merge all files with csv extension  and create concat csv  When using asterisk    to concatenate all files  Please DON T use same extension for target file Eg   csv   There should be some difference in pattern else target file will also be considered in concatenation type    csv  gt  concat csv txt

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At its most basic  concatenating files from a batch file is done with  copy    copy file1 txt   file2 txt   file3 txt concattedfile txt

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