Powershell - Append contents of one file to another..

[Scarpozzi]

I'm trying append CSV data to a CSV file in powershell.

In bash I'd do something simple like:
cat FILE1.CSV >> FILE2.CSV

What commandlets are there in Powershell to handle that sort of thing?

Thanks,

-Scar

 

[sourceninja]

I believe what you wrote works in powershell, cat is an alias to Get-Content

 

[DaveSimmons]

"type" works in a cmd.exe shell, I don't have powershell installed to try it there.

 

[Cogman]

http://www.winblogs.net/index.php/2009/09/30/a-few-powershell-useful-tricks/

Any of these useful? I've never used powershell (I would usually install cygwin over installing powershell.)

 

[Scarpozzi]

I believe what you wrote works in powershell, cat is an alias to Get-Content

Good call. Only problem is that it appears to parse out the content with spaces in-between each character and it's not respecting the formatting of FILE1.CSV...(ie. no carraige returns/new lines)

Edit: Not 100% sure about the new lines...when I just run the command cat file1.csv, it appears to work. It might be part of the '>>' that's screwing me up here.

 

[sourceninja]

http://www.brangle.com/wordpress/2009/08/combine-join-two-text-files-using-powershell/

That should help you fix those issues.

 

[Scarpozzi]

http://www.brangle.com/wordpress/2009/08/combine-join-two-text-files-using-powershell/

That should help you fix those issues.

Awesome! I'll give that a try.

Thanks.

Edit: As simple as it sounds, the first example was all I needed. Worked perfectly and didn't botch my formatting. Thanks again....that page has been bookmarked.