I have several text files in a single folder, and I would like to merge only certain sequential files into one long one (where one file comes immediately after the next).
For example, I want to merge all files starting with test
(so test1.txt
, test2.txt
, test3.txt
, and so on) into one file named file.out
, like so:
Stuff from test1
Stuff from test2
...
Stuff from testN
I tried cat * > file.out
, but that merges everything, which is not what I want. How can I do this?
paste
commandcat test* > out.file
.