Hi,

This sounds really simple, but I just can't work it out.

Let's say I have two files, a.txt and b.txt. I want to join them together into c.txt, but I want the first line of b.txt to continue on from the last line of a.txt

Example:

a.txt contains:
Hello
I want something to be joi


b.txt contains:
ned together with no line break
That would be good

If just do a simple: cat a.txt b.txt > c.txt

I get the following:

Hello
I want something to be joi
ned together with no line break
That would be good

I would like the output to look like the following:
Hello
I want something to be joined together with no line break
That would be good

Does anyone have any idea how I would go about doing this?

Please note that I do want the other line breaks that are meant to be there to be preserved, I just want the start of b.txt to continue on from the last line of a.txt


Cheers,

Nick v K.

Make sure the first file doesn't end with an end-of-line:

Thanks nfisk,

But is there any other way to do this?

I'm after a method that would strip the newline/end of file character off an existing file, which already has a trailing newline character.

Thanks.

Nick v K.

Well, a crude but effective solution using Perl if a.txt ends with an unwanted newline char:
You probably won't want to do that if the file is huge, though, as its entire contents is read into memory all at once.