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What is the quickest and most pragmatic way to combine all *.txt file in a directory into one large text file?
Currently I'm using windows with cygwin so I have access to BASH.
Windows shell command would be nice too but I doubt there is one.
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To join two or more text files on the Linux command-line, you can use the cat command. The cat (short for “concatenate”) command is one of the most commonly used commands in Linux as well as other UNIX-like operating systems, used to concatenate files and print on the standard output.
Open the two files you want to merge. Select all text (Command+A/Ctrl+A) from one document, then paste it into the new document (Command+V/Ctrl+V). Repeat steps for the second document. This will finish combining the text of both documents into one.
Appending content to an existing file To append content after you merge multiple files in Linux to another file, use double redirection operator. (>>) along with cat command. Rather than overwriting the contents of the file, this command appends the content at the end of the file.
This appends the output to all.txt
cat *.txt >> all.txt This overwrites all.txt
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