ANy way to add new line at end of multiple text files

Question

I am merging many text files in one but problem is that they don't have new line at the end of text.

Is there any way to append new line to all files using MS dos command or batch file

I am using cmd.exe of Vista

Answer 1

You can run this as a batch file

del merged.txt

for %%I in (*.txt) do (
    echo %%~fI >> merged.tmp
    echo --------- >> merged.tmp
    type %%I >> merged.tmp
    echo. >> merged.tmp
    echo. >> merged.tmp
)

ren merged.tmp merged.txt

This way you don't have to specify the names but all the files must be in the same folder.

The echo %%~fI echo the full path name, for other options you can consult

help for

Other than that, if the result is not exactly as you want, probaby all you need is just changing what are echo-ed

Answer 2

You can concatentate files using COPY

For example, files: data1.txt and data2.txt can be combined by:

copy data1.txt + data2.txt dataFull.txt

and the result will be in dataFull.txt. If you leave off the destination it will all be in the first listed file.

To insure a newline the easiest, although not most elegant method would be to create a file, newline.txt, which is simply a blank line and include it after each file:

copy data1.txt + newline.txt + data2.txt dataFull.txt

It would be fairly straight forward to include this addition in a looping structure.