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cat $(ls -t) &gt;&nbsp;combined.txt<br />
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That's a Linux command. Wrap it in PHP and you're set.<br />
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HTH,<br />
Dan
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Yes but the first one has certain criteria, while this one is any file in the directory
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Corrected code - there were errors in the post above<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41787813-1"><span>$iterator = new FilesystemIterator($input, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS + FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME);</span>
<span>@unlink($output);</span>
<span>foreach ($iterator as $key =&gt; $filepath)</span>
<span>{</span>
<span>  file_put_contents($output, file_get_contents($filepath), FILE_APPEND);</span>
<span>}</span>
</code></pre>
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And in case there are folders in the input directory<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41787816-1"><span>$iterator = new FilesystemIterator($input, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS + FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME);</span>
<span>@unlink($output);</span>
<span>foreach ($iterator as $key =&gt; $filepath)</span>
<span>{</span>
<span>  if (!is_dir($filepath)) {</span>
<span>    file_put_contents($output, file_get_contents($filepath), FILE_APPEND);</span>
<span>  }</span>
<span>}</span>
</code></pre>
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How can I combine all the files I have in a directory?<br />
I want them to be all copied in a document to be called &quot;combined.txt&quot;
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How can I combine all the files I have in a directory?
I want them to be all copied in a document to be called "combined.txt"

Combine all files

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