Solved Adding file name to a text file through batch programming?

nbrane December 17, 2012 at 14:21:51

This works, but it puts blank lines between the contents and the names: type *.txt > merged.txt 2>&1 This could also work, but may be slow: @echo off>merged.txt for %%a in (*.txt) do ( >>merged.txt echo %%a copy merged.txt+%%a ) ::==== end batch

Razor2.3 December 17, 2012 at 18:31:56

Depends on what you mean by "adding the field." If you just want to inject the file name before its contents in the merged file, something like this will do. type *.txt > merged.out 2>&1 How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Thanks for the replies guys. That last command does add the file name to the beginning of the original text file. What I meant by adding a field was Currently i have this in the original text file 110112 data data data what i was wanting to have is 110112,data 110112,data 110112,data or data,110112 data,110112 data,110112 adding the file name at the end of each row/record or beginning of one. Isn't there an append function or something?

IVO December 18, 2012 at 06:52:12

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@echo off for %%j in (*.txt) do for /F "delims=" %%k in (%%j) do echo.%%~nj,%%k>> merged.new ren merged.new merged.txt