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naveen
Asked: 2013-11-09 22:54:25 +0800 CST

How to read the all files in a directory and display them using cat command?

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I have a directory employer/. In this there are 5 .txt files.

I want to combine the data from all 5 files and show into the command prompt using cat or create another file and save the result in that file. How can I do this?

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  1. Best Answer

    First go to employer/ directory (using cd /path/to/employer/ command), then use one of the following commands:

    cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt

    or, simple:

    cat *.txt

    If you want to save the output in a new file, then you can use:

    cat *.txt >new_file.txt

    If you want both, to write the output to standard output and to a new file, then you can use:

    cat *.txt | tee new_file.txt
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