Need to grab all text files on a disk drive...

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Dos-Man

Hi,

Do any of you know of an app that will search a disk drive for
files of certain type (.txt is what I am doing), and append
the contents of each to an existing or new file?

Clearly, there may be a way to do this from the command prompt
but no Unicode support is available from the command prompt.

dos-man
 
Hi,

Do any of you know of an app that will search a disk drive for
files of certain type (.txt is what I am doing), and append
the contents of each to an existing or new file?

Clearly, there may be a way to do this from the command prompt
but no Unicode support is available from the command prompt.
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Search *.txt, *.diz, *.nfo, *.asc, *.ini etc. All files will come up in 1
search window. They can be right-dragged and copied to a temp folder.

Bob
 
Hi,

Do any of you know of an app that will search a disk drive for
files of certain type (.txt is what I am doing), and append
the contents of each to an existing or new file?

Clearly, there may be a way to do this from the command prompt
but no Unicode support is available from the command prompt.
Click to expand...


well, if you want a DOS command to do it:

for /r "%f" in ("*.htm") do type "%f" >> fred.zzz


jack
Wow!!! Input! Megabytes of input!
 
Hi,

Do any of you know of an app that will search a disk drive for
files of certain type (.txt is what I am doing), and append
the contents of each to an existing or new file?

Clearly, there may be a way to do this from the command prompt
but no Unicode support is available from the command prompt.
Click to expand...


I don't know if this fits your need but found it buzzing around
About 1/2 way down the page.
Do not know if it's freeware

http://reachfreeware.itgo.com/zfilutil.htm

Batch file-copy using append, not replace
Gary Diehl

Append.exe - a MS-DOS/Win3.1/95/98/2k/NT compatible command line utility
that is great for batch files. Append.exe will copy files just like the
MS-DOS copy command does unless it finds the same filename in the
destination directory. When it finds the same name already present, it
writes the source file on to the end of the destination file, thereby
keeping the data already there and adding the new data. This is great for
text log files, reports, scripts, or any other file where you want to keep
what you already have and add on the end of it, rather than "delete before
copy" like MS-DOS copy does. Append.exe also has an option to delete the
source file after it has been successfully copied; 22744 bytes.
 
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