Creating a master file
Hi guys,
I hope you are well and can help.
I have many text files, all with the same format, that contain, as part of their file names, "summary_sorted.txt".
For example, summary_sorted_a_.txt, summary_sorted_b.txt, summary_sorted_c.txt etc etc.
The format of each of these files is as follows:
--------------------------
abalone, adversary, aeroplane, at the park;
--------------------------
bat, benign, bipartisan;
I'd like to produce a script that will....
Examine each summary_sorted.txt file.
For each file examined, treat each file examined as 1 line, and copy its entire contents to a new file called master.txt. and
then add a blank line after its pasted contents, before the script goes on to look at the next summary_sorted.txt file.
As an example of what a master.txt file would look like based on the above, would be:
--------------------------
abalone, adversary, aeroplane, at the park;
bat, benign, bipartisan;
Any help greatly appreciated.
I hope you are well and can help.
I have many text files, all with the same format, that contain, as part of their file names, "summary_sorted.txt".
For example, summary_sorted_a_.txt, summary_sorted_b.txt, summary_sorted_c.txt etc etc.
The format of each of these files is as follows:
--------------------------
abalone, adversary, aeroplane, at the park;
--------------------------
bat, benign, bipartisan;
I'd like to produce a script that will....
Examine each summary_sorted.txt file.
For each file examined, treat each file examined as 1 line, and copy its entire contents to a new file called master.txt. and
then add a blank line after its pasted contents, before the script goes on to look at the next summary_sorted.txt file.
As an example of what a master.txt file would look like based on the above, would be:
--------------------------
abalone, adversary, aeroplane, at the park;
bat, benign, bipartisan;
Any help greatly appreciated.
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for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /on summary_sorted_?.txt') do (
echo %%a>>master.txt
echo.>>master.txt
)
Hi NVIT, thanks for this.
Your solution I thank you for, but its not doing exactly what I want.
With your code, it is creating a master.txt file (which is good), but the contents just contain the file name of each of the files instead of its contents.
Your code does the following..
==========================
summary_sorted_a.txt
summary_sorted_b.txt
--------------------------
abalone,adversary,aeroplan
bat, benign, bipartisan; (this is the contents of summary_sorted_b.txt)
Your solution I thank you for, but its not doing exactly what I want.
With your code, it is creating a master.txt file (which is good), but the contents just contain the file name of each of the files instead of its contents.
Your code does the following..
==========================
summary_sorted_a.txt
summary_sorted_b.txt
--------------------------
abalone,adversary,aeroplan
bat, benign, bipartisan; (this is the contents of summary_sorted_b.txt)
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