Hey Dave, et al,
After reading the several responses and gauging your reaction to them I’ll
offer yet another solution.
First of all, I am assuming that what you want is one large, all-inclusive
file. I’m further assuming that all these files are just simple text file with
no more formating than the spacing embedded within each. Given these
assumption prove accurate, you may want to consider this:
- Open your Terminal application.
- Go to the folder where these files reside.
- Using the Unix cat (concatenate) command, you can load the contents of any
number of files into a single larger file in the following ways:
* If the files follow an incrementally successing order (i.e., file01.txt,
file02.txt, file03.txt, etc) you can execute the command:
cat file*.txt >DesiredFile.txt
However, if the file names do not conform to the neat sort order suggested
above, you may need to concatenate them specifically as follows:
cat firstFile.txt secondFile.txt thirdFile.txt … > DesiredFile.txt
Or, if you prefer to concatenate the files individually or in several batches,
you could do:
cat firstFile.txt secondFile.txt >DesiredFile
cat thirdFile.txt fourthFile.txt >>DesiredFile
cat fifthFile.txt sixthFile.txt >>DesiredFile
etc
A point that should be made here, note that in the last solution, only the
initial concatenation is directed via a single greater-than (>) symbol. All
succeeding concatenations use a double greater-than (>>) symbol. This is
because in Unix the “>” initiates a create or start-over instruction while the
“>>” signifies an append operation.
I hope this is not overwhelmingly confusing, my intentions are to be helpful.
One further note, when using the “wild card” symbol (*) make sure the target
file cannot be confused as a possible source file. For example, do not do
something like:
cat file*.txt >file00.txt
HTH
* * * * * * * * * * * *
- Bill from Ino, Wisconsin
- "Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment."
- "It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones."
- Bruce Garrabrandt
> On Aug 25, 2022, at 8:38 AM, Dave Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Herbie,
> Okay, then you’re saying that when I unzip, it will come out as a single
> large text file? I don’t know how that is accomplished.
>
> Dave Carlson
> Farfar, Pioneer, Musician, Oregonian, Engineer, and Woodworker
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2022, at 6:07 AM, Herbie Allen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> You can do a Zip file. Select the files you want, bring up your context menu
> with VO Shift M, and go down to Compress.
>
>> On Aug 25, 2022, at 00:05, Dave Carlson <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I have 16 text files from scanning pages. I want to open them and have them
>> all be one continuous text file.
>> Is there a way to select these 16 text files in finder and then open them or
>> paste them into a single document? Sort of like a book binder app.
>>
>> Dave Carlson
>> Woodworker, Musician, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer
>>
>>
>>
>>
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