Total Commander

[Balderstrom]

1. Select Files
2. Press Button
3. Selected Files will be Merged

[Fuzz]

2Balderstrom
thanks! Very usefull button. Was searching for this for some time! Works perfect for me.

[Ambaquista]

Nice job.
I work with the freeware program TXTCollector (with a button in the toolbar), but it grabs all the files with the given extension.
I change to your batch
brgds

[Balderstrom]

Cool. For some reason I like batch --- I must like suffering

I recently had to do some scripting with AppleScript --- worst language I've ever used, and I've done LISP, Prolog and Assembly (ASM).

Exagerration for comic effect (slightly):
(pseudo AppleScript) ---> with variable x please set it to y as a string if you wouldn't mind so much

[cubic]

[Balderstrom]

Editor's pick from Brothersoft? Really? Possibly the worst site ever for software. I've had them blocked in my custom google search for years.

Most of those other programs can be accomplished with a quick script, 10-20 lines (kb or 2, instead of 400 to 1000kb). And I certainly wouldn't look to getting any software from a developer that promotes a program to create fake web-traffic (900kb, also note this can be done with about 4 lines of a script *smirk*)

Some disk tools "features" that can be accomplished with 1-2 lines of script.
1) Create huge files to see how text processors can handle them (see File Generator)
2) Create millions of files.

And you drop by MY thread just to let me know my "software" sucks? Compared to a piece of closed-source crap gui on the internet.
Try again.

[Fuzz]

Balderstrom, +1

[r0k]

Hi. Sorry for the thread necromancy.
I just found this batch. Very useful. Just one request, is it possible to have an option to insert the merged filenames in the output file. So if i have file "file1.txt", "file2.txt" ... the output would look like :
file1.txt
<content of file 1>
file2.txt
<content of file 2>
...
This could be useful in some cases.

[Balderstrom]

It's doable, will require an additional variable/parameter, creation of said files as a group of "header-files"... making it safe we'd want to check if those files already exist (that we are about to create), else fail.
Then in the main merge section we'd change it so that the newly created header-files are copied before the content itself.
Before the script exits, we'd want to again, check if the new variable-parameter was used (not equal to -1) and clean up those tempoarily created files (delete them).

Note to self: Create temporary "MergeFiles_TempHeaders" Folder, if ErrorLevel, Fail. * Easiest way to check for multiple files existing. Delete folder at end of script.

I'll test the code after work.

[Balderstrom]

/H=STRING Parameter Added.

Code assumes, that
1) You don't surround STRING with quotes - it doesn't look very good inserted in between the merged files.
2) Since you shouldn't use quotes around the STRING, you don't use special characters, like &|

Usage Example:

MergeSelectedFiles.cmd /H=***

Output header line would appear like:
*** 'Example File.txt' ***

[Fuzz]

seems like v1.90 didn't work for me. Returned to previous ver... Is code correct?

[Balderstrom]

I did test... apparently in a folder without any other directories.

The recommended asterix '*' for the /h parameter, causes the FOR /D loop to parse it as a wildcard, and turns the FOR /D loop into a "Loop through all foldernames in the current directory" ... which causes the VerifyFiles check to fail, as it now matches a folder --- which shouldn't be selected.

[Balderstrom]

V1.95 Fix for added /H parameter, when '*' was used as a header spacer character. For /D Loop broke.

[EricB]

Hi Balderstrom,

I also use this batchfile sometimes, very useful for merging textfiles. The 1.95 version does not function correctly anymore. Running from button it just flashes shortly with no output. When run directly from the command line it renders "-==-- was unexpected at this time", which would explain it does not work from button press. Apparently the statement "-%AddFileHeader%-==--" is not recognized.

Regards, EricB

[Balderstrom]

IF you change:
IF -%AddFileHeader%-==--
TO:
IF -%AddFileHeader%- EQU --

Does that work? I'm guessing it's pre-Win7? I haven't noticed any of my old win2K/winxp scripts to have compatibility issues since I switched to Win7, but then that particular syntax I never used in older scripts either.