Volkmaniac
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Is there a way you could sequentially join ANSI X12 EDI files using Unix or DOS? We're about to start processing form 175's and I'd like to try and join multiple files we receive.
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You can accomplish the requested task in either UNIX or DOS in multiple ways.
In UNIX, you can use:
'cat * >> outfilename' to copy all of the files in the current directory to the output file. '>>' will cause the data to append as opposed to '>', which overwrites the file.
In UNIX, you can use:
'cat * >> outfilename' to copy all of the files in the current directory to the output file. '>>' will cause the data to append as opposed to '>', which overwrites the file.
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Volkmaniac
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Thank You. I ended up using a program called ffcat for DOS. It basically does the same thing using a command line:
FOR %F IN (*.TXT FILE.*) DO FFCAT %F OUTFILE.TXT /NOFF
FOR %F IN (*.TXT FILE.*) DO FFCAT %F OUTFILE.TXT /NOFF
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