help with cmd/bat file

Hello.

I have a directory with some text files I like to merge

that can be done by copy c:\myfolder\*.txt destfile.txt

But what I need to do is to have the files in a specific order (ie only a few of them is important)

So what I want to do is having a file fileorder.txt (not in the same folder)
that contains the files that should be first in that order

so the cmd file shoud read the fileorder.txt

and merge all the files that are in there into destfile.txt
then all the other files that are not in fileorder.txt should be appended after
those files.

How can i do that?

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pucko73

8/22/2022 - Mon

Qlemo

12/21/2012

@echo off
cd /d C:\Targetfolder
copy nul DestFile.txt >nul
for /F "tokens=*" %%F in (c:\FileOrder.txt) do copy DestFile.txt+"C:\MyFolder\%%~F" >nul
for /F "tokens=*" %%F in ('dir C:\MyFolder\*.txt /b ^| findstr /V /G:C:\FileOrder.txt') do ^
copy DestFile.txt+"%%~F" >nul

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pucko73

12/21/2012

ASKER

Seems like it dont work for me.

I have this:

c:\fileorder.txt containing

b.txt
c.txt

in c:\myfolder i have 4 files. a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt

The DestFile.txt ends up with som strange charaters and only the content of b.txt joined with c.txt.

pucko73

12/21/2012

ASKER

IE the file contains :

Row 1 : content of b.txt
Row 2. Character for ascii value 26 and the content of c.txt
Row 3. 3 times the chaqracter for ascii value 26

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