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From: bga@bgalli.eds.com (Billy G. Allie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix-like cat for MS-DOS
Summary: using MS-DOS 'for' command for wild card expansion.
Message-ID: <408@bgalli.eds.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 17:14:46 GMT
References: <380@wjh12.harvard.edu>
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Organization: BGA's home system, Dearborn, MI.
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In article <380@wjh12.harvard.edu>, (David J. Birnbaum) writes:
< MS-DOS 'copy' does not like wildcards; I can not concatenate temp1
< and temp2 into temp3 by entering "copy temp? temp3" (assuming that
< temp1 and temp2 exist and temp3 doesn't.  The UNIX cat command will
< do what I want (cat temp? > temp3).  I looked for an MS-DOS implemen-
< tation and tried the one in picnix31, but it includes the EOF
< character and I am unable to concatenate text files and then look
< at them without tripping over the embedded control-Z.

Try the following command:

	c:\>for %i in (temp?) do type %i >>temp3

This should do what you want for text files.
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