P50 (DOC, RTF, HTM, TXT) Append/Concatenate Text Files

Additional Notes: You can append the content of a one or many files to the end of another file by using this special process. A copy of the ‘Input File’ (specified by /S{Input File} ) will be placed at the end of the output ‘Target File’ (specified by /T{Target File} ).

To append multiple files make sure the Input file uses the wildcard format (e.g. *.doc , *.htm, *.txt).

To concatenate the contents of Excel worksheets please see "/P 101 Copy Specified Data from sheet to same or different XLS file".

NOTE: The file type must be specified for this special process, which is done by the /F#. Both input and output file types must be the same when using this special process.

EXAMPLE 1 Append one file to another

To append the contents of B.RTF to the end of the contents within A.RTF the following syntax would be used:

ConvertXLS.EXE /S"D:\Files\B.RTF" /T"D:\Files\A.RTF" /P50 /F5

EXAMPLE 2 Append many files together

To append the contents of all MS Word files within the D:\WordDocs\ folder into D:\Output\Target.DOC the following syntax would be used:

ConvertXLS.EXE /S"D:\WordDocs\*.DOC /T"D:\Output\Target.Doc" /P50 /F9

The /S and /T switches specify input and output workbook respectively, which in this case is the same workbook.

To do recursive subfolders, specify the /R switch.