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Many a times you may have multiple les that
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that you previously split a single le into
multiple les, and want to just merge them
back or you have several log les that you want
merged into one. Whatever the reason, it is very
easy to merge multiple text les into a single
le in Linux.
The command in Linux to concatenate or

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The cat command takes a list of le names as kahlua kde
its argument. The order in which the le names
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order in which the les are merged or
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of le2.txt to the end of le1.txt. The content of
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Many a time, you might have an inordinately

large number of les which makes it harder to
type in all the le names. The cat command

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This will merge all the les in the current linux
directory that start with the name le and has a how to merge
txt extension followed by the les that start two or more
with my and has a txt extension. You have to be directories in
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A quick and easy way to make sure the les get encoding in
merged in the exact order you want, is to use
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the output of another le listing program such
as ls or nd and pipe it to the cat command.
First execute the nd command with the
regular expression and verify the le order…
bash$ nd . -name " le*.txt" -o -name

"my*.txt"
This will print the les in order such that you

can verify it to be correct or modify it to
match what you want. You can then pipe that
output into the cat command.
bash$ nd . -name " le*.txt" -o -name

"my*.txt" | xargs cat > ./merged le.txt
When you merge multiple les into one le

using regular expressions to match them,
especially when it is piped and where the
output le is not very obvious, make sure that
the regular expression does not match the
lename of the merged le. In the case that it
does match, usually the cat command is pretty
good at error-ing out with the message “input
le is output le”. But it helps to be careful to

start with.
Merge Two Files at Arbitrary Location

Sometimes you might want to merge two les,
but at a particular location within the content of
a le. This is more like the process of inserting
contents of one le into an another at a
particular position in the le.
If the le sizes are small and manageable, then

vi is a great editor tool to do this. Otherwise the
option is to split the le rst and then merge
the resulting les in order. The easiest way is to
split the le is based on the line numbers,
exactly at where you want to insert the other
le.
bash$ split -l 1234 le1.txt
You can split the le into any number of output

les depending on your requirement. The above
example will split the le le1.txt to chunks of
1234 lines. It is quite possible that you might
end up with more than two les, named xaa,
xab, xac etc..You can merge all of it back using
the same cat command as mentioned earlier.
bash$ cat xaa le2.txt xa{b..z}
The above command will merge the les in

order with the contents of le2.txt in between
the contents of xaa and xab.
Another use case is when you need to merge

only speci c parts of certain les depending on
some condition. This is especially useful for
me when I have to analyze several large log
les, but am only interested in certain

messages or lines. So, I will need to extract the
important log messages based on some
criteria from several log les and save them in
a different le while also maintaining or
preserving the order of the messages.
Though you can do this using cat and grep

commands, you can do it with just the grep
command as well.
bash$ grep -h "[Error]" log le*.log >

onlyerrors.log
The above will extract all the lines that match

the pattern [Error] and save it to another le.
You will have to make sure that the log les are
in order when using the regular expression to
match them, as mentioned earlier in the post.
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The command in Linux to concatenate or

The above command will append the contents screenshot search

Many a time, you might have an inordinately

type in all the le names. The cat command

bash$ nd . -name " le*.txt" -o -name

This will print the les in order such that you

bash$ nd . -name " le*.txt" -o -name

When you merge multiple les into one le

le is output le”. But it helps to be careful to

Merge Two Files at Arbitrary Location

If the le sizes are small and manageable, then

bash$ split -l 1234 le1.txt

You can split the le into any number of output

bash$ cat xaa le2.txt xa{b..z}

The above command will merge the les in

Another use case is when you need to merge

les, but am only interested in certain

Though you can do this using cat and grep

bash$ grep -h "[Error]" log le*.log >

The above will extract all the lines that match

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