I have multiple files which I want to concat with cat
.
Let’s say
File1.txt foo File2.txt bar File3.txt qux
I want to concat so that the final file looks like:
foo bar qux
Instead of this with usual cat File*.txt > finalfile.txt
foo bar qux
What’s the right way to do it?
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Answer
You can do:
for f in *.txt; do (cat "${f}"; echo) >> finalfile.txt; done
Make sure the file finalfile.txt
does not exist before you run the above command.
If you are allowed to use awk
you can do:
awk 'FNR==1{print ""}1' *.txt > finalfile.txt