2015-05-02 23:01 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>: > At 11:13 02/05/2015 -0400, Dave Mainwaring wrote: > >> Inserting 100 small text files into doc >> Need to insert 100 plus small account record files into a single >> document. Any simple easy way to do this? >> > > That depends on whether your "text files" are plain text or word processor > text documents. If they are plain text, this may be a simple job for your > operating system. In Windows, for example, > copy a+b c > creates a file c containing a concatenation of the contents of files a and > b. You could write simple code to include multiple files if they were > systematically named >
If text files and on Linux, here's what I would try to do: 1. Put them all in a new, or at least empty, folder, perhaps using my favourite file manager. 2. Open a terminal in that folder. 3. cat * > NewFile Done. NewFile will now contain all text from the hundreds of files in that folder. Open it in Apache OpenOffice and do whatever you want with it. Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > In any case, you could use > copy * z > to create a file z containing a concatenation of all the files whose names > match "*". So > copy *.txt z.txt > would assemble all plain text files from the current folder. > > It's then a trivial task to convert a plain text file into whatever you > mean by "doc" or "document". > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
