Hello. I am trying to concatenate multiple csv files using cat, and it works. It's just that in every file besides the first one, the first line gets deleted. This is what I'm using. cat /combine/*.csv > /combined.csv Does anyone know if there is a way for cat to keep all the files intact? Thanks!

I'm not understanding why you are having this problem. It's a simple enough use of cat: cat /combine/*.csv > /combined.csv One thing I'd like to warn you about is the above command will not work unless you have root privileges. You are attempting to create combined.csv file in the root directory: /combined.csv I don't think this is a good idea even if you have the file creation rights.

Thank you for your response. I took out the path to the actual directory and the resulting file path, so I'm not actually creating a file on root. I think I found out why... I am not getting a end of line after each file, squeezing the last and first entry between each file. Is there a way for cat to insert a "end of line" character after each file? Again, Thanks for your help!

You're welcome. How silly of me! I've seen this issue before. One fix is to add a newline to the end of the offending file. Do something like this: echo "" >> myfile.csv I don't think there's anything that cat alone can do, but this script lists out each file individually, appends the file to the combined.csv file, and appends a newline to the combined.csv file: #!/bin/ksh ls -1 *.csv|while read file do echo "$file" >> combined.csv echo "" >> combined.csv done