If doing a cat command to get one large rtf file presents problems use the
textutil command to first convert all rtf to txt files. Command:
textutil -convert txt *.rtf
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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
First, just try cat *bigfile. Big file being what every you want.
That will most likely give you what you want, but you may have to do more.
Unix seems to deal with RTFs pretty well, but it’s possible that there may be
problems.
On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com
3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Terminal command to concatenate all files in a folder
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
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,
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
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
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
