{"id":2644,"date":"2010-12-26T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:39:52","slug":"combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux","title":{"rendered":"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text files into one large file so I could copy all the data.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows<\/h2>\n<p>You can combine text files in Windows using copy&#8217;s binary mode. From the command prompt navigate to the folder with the .txt files and run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ncopy \/b filename* all.txt \/b\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Where filename*  matches the pattern of your file names and all.txt is the output file.<\/p>\n<h2>Mac \/ Linux \/ Unix<\/h2>\n<p>You can combine files in the unix shell using cat and appending the output to a file:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ncat filename* &gt; all.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Where filename*  matches the pattern of your file names and all.txt is the output file.<\/p>\n<p>This should help save someone a lot of copy and pasting time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text files into one large file so I could copy all the data. Windows You can combine text files in Windows using copy&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux\" aria-label=\"More on Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127,128,125,124,126,68],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnathan Ward\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/\",\"name\":\"Team Tutorials\",\"description\":\"Learn something new today\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux\",\"name\":\"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-26T23:47:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-02-11T20:39:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3abea1fc71644afe035403357450b9d9\"},\"description\":\"I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3abea1fc71644afe035403357450b9d9\",\"name\":\"Johnathan Ward\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93d667fe5dc6df5c722e0df5eac14d40?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93d667fe5dc6df5c722e0df5eac14d40?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Johnathan Ward\"},\"description\":\"Johnathan Ward is an experienced developer and consultant that writes tutorials to help other developers. In his day job, he is an IBM Watson Consultant with several years of experience deploying and customizing Watson Explorer solutions.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/johnathanward.com\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spyderman4g63\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux","description":"I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Johnathan Ward","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/","name":"Team Tutorials","description":"Learn something new today","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#webpage","url":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux","name":"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-12-26T23:47:34+00:00","dateModified":"2011-02-11T20:39:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3abea1fc71644afe035403357450b9d9"},"description":"I ran into a problem where I had a zip file that had a document I wanted to copy split into 100 different .txt files. I needed to combine all of the text","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/other-tutorials\/combine-text-files-into-one-files-in-windows-mac-and-linux#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Combine Text Files into One File in Windows, Mac, and Linux"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3abea1fc71644afe035403357450b9d9","name":"Johnathan Ward","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93d667fe5dc6df5c722e0df5eac14d40?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/93d667fe5dc6df5c722e0df5eac14d40?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Johnathan Ward"},"description":"Johnathan Ward is an experienced developer and consultant that writes tutorials to help other developers. In his day job, he is an IBM Watson Consultant with several years of experience deploying and customizing Watson Explorer solutions.","sameAs":["http:\/\/johnathanward.com","https:\/\/twitter.com\/spyderman4g63"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtutorials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}