On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:04 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Erich Carlson wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 11:25 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> Can someone tell me how to combine a number of > >> text files into one file? > >> > >> I have about fifty open office [.odt] text files > >> that I would like to combine into one file containing > >> all of that text. Nothing I have tried is acceptable > >> to open office? > >> > > > > have you tried "cat file1 file2 > combinedfile > > > > > > > Yes, the result was a huge file and OO only displayed one page > containing the last two lines? > > Bob > I would be surprised if odt were really plain text files. I suspect they would contain OOwrite formating commands which would make combining two of these files not to work. The file might contain a formatting command that this is the end of the document which sounds like what is happening to you. Sound like a tedious job using copy and paste would be a possibility. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
