Plugin to merge/combine files?

[Peter]

I have to merge/combine text-files very often. Is there a (packer?)-plugin to select files and then concatenate them?

Peter

[hi5]

You can do that already if you rename your files first using [C] and then use Files, Combine files it will automatically merge 1.txt and all ascending filenames (2.txt 3.txt 4.txt etc) to one file.

Edit: If the order doesn't matter at all and you want to merge all *.txt files in the current dir you can use a batch file or type in the command bar: copy *.txt /b > mergedfile

[Peter]

Hello hi5

thanks, but these are exactly the procedures I currently use and which I want to avoid:
- Rename and merge destroys the original filenames (copy them to a temp-folder is one step more), and
- "copy ..." is less flexible in file selection.

Peter

[milo1012]

You can use RegXtract for this.

Just use the default values (.* and $0) an enable Search and Replace.
You could also enable dotall to speed up things a little.

Now set the outfile extension accordingly and the files get merged in the order of input,
which is the current Total Commander sort settings for the active pane (by name, date, ...custom columns...).

[Peter]

You can use RegXtract for this...

Thanks - exactly what I wanted.

Peter

[Hacker]

Peter,
It should suffice to add a new extension, .001, .002, etc., so the Extension field in the MRT would look like this:

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[E].[C:3]

Then select the first file and choose Combine Files from the Files menu.

HTH
Roman

[Peter]

Hi Roman

thanks, but I tried already the plugin mentioned above, and it works fine. I will use it the next time.

Peter

[Stefan2]

I have to merge/combine text-files very often. Is there a (packer?)-plugin to select files and then concatenate them?

Peter

Just with plain PowerShell

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
powershell 
-command $out=""""""; foreach($file in dir *.txt){$out += """Content of $file`r`n`r`n""" + [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file, [System.Text.Encoding]::Default ) + """`r`n`r`n##### EOF #####`r`n`r`n"""}; $out | out-file _outfile.txt
%Commander_Path%\WCMICONS.DLL,6
PowerShell Merge TXT files to _outfile.txt


-1

This will result in something like:

Content of D:\rive\path\abc.txt

abc
abc
abc

##### EOF #####

Content of D:\rive\path\opq.txt

opq
opq
opq

##### EOF #####

Content of D:\rive\path\xyz.txt

xyz
xyz
xyz

##### EOF #####

- - -

Note:

we can shorten that command to

-command $o=""""""; foreach($f in dir *.txt){$o += """Content of $f`r`n`r`n""" + [IO.File]::ReadAllText($f, [Text.Encoding]::Default ) + """`r`n`r`n##### EOF #####`r`n`r`n"""}; $o | out-file _outfile.txt

and you can drop ", [Text.Encoding]::Default " if you work with plain ASCII 7-bit only.


- - -

Note:

for use with TC I had to escape the quote chars: " > """

If I had used the un-escaped quotes like

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
powershell -NoExit
-command $out=""; foreach($file in dir *.txt){$out += "Content of $file`r`n`r`n" + [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file, [System.Text.Encoding]::Default ) + "`r`n`r`n##### EOF #####`r`n`r`n"}; $out | out-file _outfile.txt
%Commander_Path%\WCMICONS.DLL,6
PowerShell Merge TXT files to _out.txt


-1

I get an error like

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Sie müssen auf der rechten Seite des Operators "=" einen Wertausdruck angeben.
Bei Zeile:1 Zeichen:6
+ $out= <<<< ; foreach($file in dir *.txt){$out += Content of $file`r`n`r`n + [Syst
m.Text.Encoding]::Default ) + `r`n`r`n##### EOF #####`r`n`r`n}; $out | out-file _ou
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordExcepti
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExpectedValueExpression

I wish TC had an -RAW parameter.

[hi5]

For reference: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=28063 (using TCBL or a simple batch script) If you happen to be a AutoHotkey user you can use that too. TCBL can be found here http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=9374