Need a favor from you unix guys/gals

[anonmouseuser]

I need a quick favor from you folks. I have about 150 txt files and I need it to be converted into one master copy. I dug around for shareware apps that can do this but most of them have a 25-50 file restriction.

I know that this can be done via a batch file in win but I don't really want to spend time learing how to do this one time thing. Help is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you can help me out and I will send over a rar.

Thanks.

 

[Howard]

Let me see if I can salvage an old C program to do this...

 

[Isocene]

for x in `ls`
do
cat $x >> master.txt
echo "*****************************" >> master.txt
done

 

[gopunk]

dunno if i am understanding correctly, but maybe:

cat *.txt > masterfile

?

 

[DainBramaged]

What are gals?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
What are gals?

females

 

[silverpig]

unix? Just need to combine them all into one file? This should work:

stick all the .txt files into a directory (say concat/)
make a file called output in concat

cat concat/*.txt >> concat/output

That should do it unless I'm a retard.

 

[anonmouseuser]

BTW, I don't have access to a unix box where I am sitting. I should have probably mentioned this in my OP.

 

[Jassi]

Do you have access to matlab? I used to do this all the time for profs at my old school and its mondo easy.

 

[jfall]

i'll do it for you, check your pm

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: anonmouseuser
BTW, I don't have access to a unix box where I am sitting. I should have probably mentioned this in my OP.

right click/new/text document

double click .txt1 <ctrl><a> <ctrl> <c>
click in new text document <end> <ctrl> <v>
double click .txt2 <ctrl><a> <ctrl> <c>
click in new text document <end> <ctrl> <v>
...

 

[anonmouseuser]

File sent. Thanks

 

[anonmouseuser]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: anonmouseuser
BTW, I don't have access to a unix box where I am sitting. I should have probably mentioned this in my OP.

right click/new/text document

double click .txt1 <ctrl><a> <ctrl> <c>
click in new text document <end> <ctrl> <v>
double click .txt2 <ctrl><a> <ctrl> <c>
click in new text document <end> <ctrl> <v>
...

Clever. =]

 

[gopunk]

nm i'm a retard

 

[anonmouseuser]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: anonmouseuser
BTW, I don't have access to a unix box where I am sitting. I should have probably mentioned this in my OP.

er... i'm confused then, why did you ask for help from unix people?

Because I wanted someone with unix to do it for me.

 

[skyking]

you could ssh into one and use sftp........

 

[jfall]

done and e-mailed back to you

 

[anonmouseuser]

Originally posted by: jfall
done and e-mailed back to you

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, jfall.

 

[monzi]

edit: nevermind

 

[sourceninja]

you could of always installed cygwin and use bash there to get the job done..