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motalab

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Registered: 05 Mar 2015

Posts: 2

How to Concatenate two files writing batch script

I want add two files writing a batch script. In Linux we can write  like : cat file1 file2 > file3. I want to do similar thing in windows batch script. please help me.

Shadow Thief

Member

Registered: 12 Jul 2012

Posts: 205

Re: How to Concatenate two files writing batch script

The batch equivalent of cat is type. You can use it the same way, although type file1 file2 output looks like

file1

<contents of file1>

file2

<contents of file2>

If you don't want headers, you can do

type file1 > file3
type file2 >> file3

just like in Linux.

Aacini

Member

Registered: 05 Dec 2012

Posts: 149

Re: How to Concatenate two files writing batch script

... or:

(type file1 & type file2) > file3

You may also develop your own cat.bat file, like this one:

@for %%a in (%*) do @type %%a

... and then do:

cat file1 file2 > file3