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Hello,

I have files 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt.......n.txt. Each file contains a
single line of text. I need each line of text from all these source
files to be appended into a single destination file called bulk.txt.

I have found some marginally helpful stuff in the manpages and faqs
but not quite what I need. Any pointers are appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

(Steve) wrote in news:eb6d00cc.0405061257.5b167226
@posting.google.com:

> Hello,
>
> I have files 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt.......n.txt. Each file contains a
> single line of text. I need each line of text from all these source
> files to be appended into a single destination file called bulk.txt.
>
> I have found some marginally helpful stuff in the manpages and faqs
> but not quite what I need. Any pointers are appreciated.

And your Perl question is ...?

cat ?.txt > bulk.txt

ought to do it.

--
A. Sinan Unur
(reverse each component for email address)

"A. Sinan Unur" wrote:
>
> (Steve) wrote in news:eb6d00cc.0405061257.5b167226
> @posting.google.com:
> >
> > I have files 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt.......n.txt. Each file contains a
> > single line of text. I need each line of text from all these source
> > files to be appended into a single destination file called bulk.txt.
>
> And your Perl question is ...?
>
> cat ?.txt > bulk.txt
>
> ought to do it.

The OP said append so that should be:

cat ?.txt >> bulk.txt


John
--
use Perl;
program
fulfillment

A. Sinan Unur <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> (Steve) wrote in news:eb6d00cc.0405061257.5b167226
> @posting.google.com:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have files 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt.......n.txt. Each file contains a
> > single line of text. I need each line of text from all these source
> > files to be appended into a single destination file called bulk.txt.
> >
> > I have found some marginally helpful stuff in the manpages and faqs
> > but not quite what I need. Any pointers are appreciated.
>
> And your Perl question is ...?
>
> cat ?.txt > bulk.txt
>
> ought to do it.

Dunno about the Perl question, but the Perl answer is

perl -e'print while <>' ?.txt

Anno

Anno Siegel wrote:
> A. Sinan Unur <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>
>> (Steve) wrote in news:eb6d00cc.0405061257.5b167226
>>@posting.google.com:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have files 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt.......n.txt. Each file contains a
>>>single line of text. I need each line of text from all these source
>>>files to be appended into a single destination file called bulk.txt.
>>>
>>>I have found some marginally helpful stuff in the manpages and faqs
>>>but not quite what I need. Any pointers are appreciated.
>>
>>And your Perl question is ...?
>>
>>cat ?.txt > bulk.txt
>>
>>ought to do it.
>
>
> Dunno about the Perl question, but the Perl answer is
>
> perl -e'print while <>' ?.txt
>
> Anno

And 'print while <>' is the -p option ...

$ echo xxx > bulk.txt
$ echo aaa > 1.txt
$ echo bbb > 2.txt
$ echo ccc > 3.txt
$ perl -pe "" ?.txt >> bulk.txt
$ cat bulk.txt
xxx
aaa
bbb
ccc

I suppose this *might* be useful on a platform that has perl but lacks
cat or a decent shell?

Ian Wilson <> wrote:

> And 'print while <>' is the -p option ...
>
> $ echo xxx > bulk.txt
> $ echo aaa > 1.txt
> $ echo bbb > 2.txt
> $ echo ccc > 3.txt
> $ perl -pe "" ?.txt >> bulk.txt
> $ cat bulk.txt
> xxx
> aaa
> bbb
> ccc
>
> I suppose this *might* be useful on a platform that has perl but
> lacks cat or a decent shell?

Sure, but even in later versions of DOS (at least v3+, IIRC) you
could use

C:\> for %f in (?.txt) do type %f >> bulk.txt

and under win2k at least, 'type ?.txt > bulk.txt' seems to work as
you might expect. The DOS shell is not completely brain-dead, just
mentally retarded.

Not that this has anything remotely to do with Perl...