alexander-r
11/8/2018 - 8:08 PM

Merging files

Merge files using Windows 'copy' command.

Windows 'copy' command.

C:\Users\dan>help copy
    Copies one or more files to another location.

    COPY [/D] [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z] [/L] [/A | /B ] source [/A | /B]
         [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination [/A | /B]]

      source       Specifies the file or files to be copied.
      /A           Indicates an ASCII text file.
      /B           Indicates a binary file.
      /D           Allow the destination file to be created decrypted
      destination  Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s).
      /V           Verifies that new files are written correctly.
      /N           Uses short filename, if available, when copying a file with 
                   a non-8dot3 name.
      /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
                   existing destination file.
      /-Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
                   existing destination file.
      /Z           Copies networked files in restartable mode.
      /L           If the source is a symbolic link, copy the link to the 
                   target
                   instead of the actual file the source link points to.

    The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
    This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line.  Default is
    to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from
    within a batch script.

    **To append files, specify a single file for destination, but 
    multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 
    format).**

copy *.txt destination.txt