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Appending all files that are in a directory

Hi,

This might be a question that has an easy solution but im new to unix. I have a project where I have to append files that are in a directory and then read those files out.

can anyone help me this this problem???

thanks in advance,

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Do you mean putting all files together in one file?

Code:

cat /path/to/my/directory/* > /path/to/one/file

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