Johnny - your suggestion should work on Mac OS if one is willing to use the terminal, right?
> On May 2, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-05-02 23:01 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>: > >> At 11:13 02/05/2015 -0400, Dave Mainwaring wrote: >> >>> Inserting 100 small text files into doc >>> Need to insert 100 plus small account record files into a single >>> document. Any simple easy way to do this? >> >> That depends on whether your "text files" are plain text or word processor >> text documents. If they are plain text, this may be a simple job for your >> operating system. In Windows, for example, >> copy a+b c >> creates a file c containing a concatenation of the contents of files a and >> b. You could write simple code to include multiple files if they were >> systematically named > > If text files and on Linux, here's what I would try to do: > 1. Put them all in a new, or at least empty, folder, perhaps using my > favourite file manager. > 2. Open a terminal in that folder. > 3. cat * > NewFile > Done. > > NewFile will now contain all text from the hundreds of files in that > folder. Open it in Apache OpenOffice and do whatever you want with it. > > > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > >> >> In any case, you could use >> copy * z >> to create a file z containing a concatenation of all the files whose names >> match "*". So >> copy *.txt z.txt >> would assemble all plain text files from the current folder. >> >> It's then a trivial task to convert a plain text file into whatever you >> mean by "doc" or "document". >> >> I trust this helps. >> >> Brian Barker >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
