Todor, You’re confusing my original message with a hijacker asking another question that is only peripherally related to the topic at hand. I wish people would either start their own threads or be clear that there’ question is not related to the original message. > On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by wanting to "merge those files into a folder". > Your original question was how to merge many files into one big file. That's > why I said, "You can do what you asked" But that might not be what you want. > > Most likely, if you just want to listen to a book that came to you as a zip > file, yu probably want to unzip it at the command line and then browse to it > in File Browser. > > Anyway, yes, the command I gave works to concatenate files of all types. But > you will get the same problem with many file types as I spoke of with rtf. > The files will have header and footer information and simply concatenating > them at the command line will give you a broken file. Plain text files will > definitely work. So will mp3 files surprisingly. So you can do the following > and it will probably work: > > cat file*.mp3 > bigfile.mp3 > > On 03/26/2015 10:21 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: >> Hi, >> Can you do the same thing with a straight text file? Or a downloaded audio >> file? I have an audio file of a book that was separated by chapter. It came >> to me as a zip file. Can I somehow merge those files into a folder to save >> to my desktop? I need to use this book in order to study for some >> advancement in my job. >> >> Pam Francis >> >> On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Todor Fassl <fassl....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You can do what you asked with the cat command: >> >> cat file*.rtf > bigfile.rtf >> >> I am not sure that will give you a valid rtf file though. Each rtf file is >> going to have header and footer info and the concatenation of all of them >> might not be valid. You might be able to use the cat command to concatenate >> all the files, open the resulting file with textedit and then save it wiping >> out the redundant header/footer info. Maybe. >> >>> On 03/26/2015 08:35 AM, Phil Halton wrote: >>> I have a folder containing around 120 .rtf files and I want to concatenate >>> them into one large file. They are sorted and listed in the order in which >>> I wish to have them joined together. I know I could do this one at a time >>> by some such command as file1+file2+file3, etc. >>> Is there a one-shot command that will join them all together? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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