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Consolidate multiple files

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September 8, 2005 at 4:10 am

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Hey does any one know the best way to consolidate multiple files for single dts processing ??

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philcart SSC-Forever Points: 47794 More actions · Answer 1

Ahhh ... just guessing here ... but you'd probably need to provide a bit more detail about your situation before you'll get a useful answer.

I could say that you can issue the DOS Copy command (eg: Copy file1 + file2 File3 /b), but that might not be appropriate in you're situation. Another method would be to use VBScript. Open one file for appending, read in the second file and write it to the first file. Works well for small files but takes forever to process large multi-megabyte files.

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sql_Reporter SSCrazy Points: 2329 More actions · Answer 2

Hey yes sorry i will in the future but yes i was thinking in the same lines as you the command am working on is

copy c:\temp\te*.txt = c:\temp\temp.txt

Which copies all the files starting with "te" and that are .txt and add them into a destination file called temp.txt

The command i found was copy file1 + file2 = file3

this will put the contents of file 1 + file 2 into file3

thanks for ur help.

Jeff Gray SSChampion Points: 10667 More actions · Answer 3

Jeff Gray

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September 9, 2005 at 2:39 pm

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for %I in (te*.txt) do type %I >> newfile.txt

wha-bam.

jg

cgunner Ten Centuries Points: 1118 More actions · Answer 4

This is a nice .vbs that I use:

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Const OpenAsASCII = 0

Const OverwriteIfExist = -1

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

sResultFile = "e:\merge.txt" ' any existing file will be overwritten!

sSourceFolder = "e:\test"

Set oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(sSourceFolder)

Set fRF = oFSO.CreateTextFile(sResultFile, OverwriteIfExist, OpenAsASCII)

fRF.Close

sRFShort = oFSO.GetFile(sResultFile).ShortPath

sCopyLine = sRFShort

For Each oFile In oFolder.Files

sCopyLine = sCopyLine & "+" & oFile.ShortPath

' check length so the command line doesn't get too long

If Len(sCopyLine) > 900 Then

MergeFiles sRFShort, sCopyLine

sCopyLine = sRFShort

End If

If sCopyLine <> sRFShort Then

MergeFiles sRFShort, sCopyLine

End If

Sub MergeFiles(sTargetFile, sFilesToCopy)

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

sCmd = "%comspec% /c copy /b /y " & sFilesToCopy & " " & sTargetFile

iRC = oShell.Run(sCmd, 0, True)

If iRC <> 0 Then

WScript.Echo "Copy operation failed, aborting!"

WScript.Quit

End If

End Sub

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