Simple Batch file question, how to print text files to the screen

[nerdhurd2]

Greetings,

is there a way to print text files to a dos window?

What i am trying to do is print screen a text file, then append the output to another text file

print textfile.txt >> appendedfile.txt
print textfile2.txt >> appendedfile.txt


seems like print will just print to a printer

Thanks for any ideas!

 

[kmcferrin]

Use the TYPE command instead of print to list the contents of a text file. You can use the usual operators to redirect output from the screen to another file. If you need it displayed both to the screen and appended to a file, then you'll need to issue the command twice.

 

[PScottC]

As kmcferrin suggested...

type testfile1.txt >> appendedfile.txt
type testfile2.txt >> appendedfile.txt

If you want to get fancy, you could do...

for %%a in ("*.txt") do @type testfile*.txt >> appendedfile.txt

This could potentially put 1000's of files together.

PSC

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