File manipulation ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>> Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>> At 11:25 AM -0400 7/29/06, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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>>>> Can someone tell me how to combine a number of
>>>> text files into one file?
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>>>> I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files
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>>> Those are not text files.  That is your main problem.
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>>>> that I would like to combine into one file containing
>>>> all of that text.  Nothing I have tried is acceptable
>>>> to open office?
>>>>
>>>> I am running updated FC5 and have been trying to do
>>>> this from the command line, then opening the result
>>>> in open office.
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>>> That won't work.  You need to do this in OOo.  It's what knows how
>>> to handle .odf files.
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>> That may be right, I will try changing them to .txt files.
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> I can't imagine how that would work.  Changing the extension won't
> make the open office files into text files.  They will still have the
> same contents as before and that's why you can't just cat them
> together.
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> Here's a post from the openoffice.org users list where someone asked
> how to do this and got two replies offering ways to achieve this:
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> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=114490
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> (Note that I don't use openoffice with any frequency, so forgive me if
> I'm missing something.)
Yes, changing the .odt files back to .txt seems to do it.  OpenOffice 
offers to save files with various extensions/formats.  They were derived 
from a large .txt file and OO changed them to .odt as I worked on them. 
It also permits me to save them as "TXT" files which I did with several 
and they then displayed properly when combined in one file.

 cat *.txt > append.txt

Combines them in one file append.txt

 ll *.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2321 Jul 29 12:37 append.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  522 Jul 29 12:32 cd-1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  875 Jul 29 12:34 cd-2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  104 Jul 29 12:35 cdfstab-1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  820 Jul 29 12:36 colors-1.txt

Thanks for the help.

Bob Goodwin