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Nile Waldal
Nile Waldal

Reputation: 15

Batch file to append several text documents to one document

I have created a batch file which should do several things, including appending all text documents of a certain format into one text file provided there are more than one text files of this format in the directory. This section of the code is below:

:multiple
SET /a count=0
ECHO.> "%location%\UAV_camera_coords_all.txt"
FOR /r "%location%\Output" %%G in ("UAV_camera_coords_*.txt") do set /a count+=1
IF %count% GTR 1 (
FOR /r "%location%\Output" %%G in ("*.txt") DO (
SET file=%%~G
TYPE "%file%">>"%location%\UAV_camera_coords_all"
)
GOTO :end

It seems that the code is crashing upon reaching the if statement even though the count variable is greater than one. None of the code in the if statement is executed and indeed none of the code which should come after the if statement is executed either. Is there any syntax or other error which may be causing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 65

Answers (2)

Compo
Compo

Reputation: 38654

Just for the purpose of providing an alternative, this one uses to check the file count, and to merge them.

PushD "%location%\Output" 2>NUL && For /F %%G In ('""%__AppDir__%xcopy.exe" "UAV_camera_coords_*.txt" . /SQL"')Do If %%G Gtr 1 Copy /Y /B "UAV_camera_coords_*.txt" "..\UAV_camera_coords_all.txt">NUL & PopD

Upvotes: 0

user7818749
user7818749

Reputation:

Besides my comment. I assume that you are not really planning on typing the output of *.txt but instead only UAV_camera_coords_*.txt.. if not, feel free to change it back to *.txt

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%i in ('dir /s "%location%\UAV_camera_coords_*.txt" ^| findstr "File(s)"') do set cnt=%%i
if %cnt% gtr 1 (
    for /f %%a in ('dir /b /s "%location%\UAV_camera_coords_*.txt"') do type "%%~a"
)>"%location%\UAV_camera_coords-all.txt"

Note, I changed the output filename to be -all and not _all as that would type the file onto itself if it was to be a txt file as well.

Edit adding back original answer, before I realised you were recursively searching through directories:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,*" %%i in ('dir "UAV_camera_coords_*.txt" ^| findstr "File(s)"') do if %%i gtr 1 type "UAV_camera_coords_*.txt">>"%location%\UAV_camera_coords_all"

Upvotes: 1

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