[Tutor] concatenating files

[Alan Gauld]

"Bala subramanian" <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote

> I have file1.dat,file2.dat...file 300.dat  in one directory. I want 
> to
> concatenate all the files in a single file  (total.dat) with a 
> string "END"
> separating the file contents.
> my total.dat should be
> file1.dat contents
> END
> file2.dat contents
> END
> ----
> ----
> file300.dat.
>
> now i have another 400 such *.dat files in another directory whose 
> contents
> i hve to append to "total.dat", how can i do this task. i need to do
> something like, updating the file total.dat without overwritting it.
>
> Thanks,
> Bala
>


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