2015-05-03 0:02 GMT+02:00 chuck ef <chuck...@hotmail.com>: > Johnny - your suggestion should work on Mac OS if one is willing to use > the terminal, right? >
As far as I understand, yes. But I never had a Mac so I don't know for sure. Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > > > On May 2, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
