From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-25T23:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Join all text files in a folder, with a single line of Ruby code

On 25.10.2008 13:56, Brian Candler wrote:
> luisbebop wrote:
>> I did a single line of code in Ruby, which joins all text files in a
>> folder to a bigfile. I got some tests, and it's works!
>> Does anyone knows a better way, or other 'Ruby Way' to do that ?
>>
>> File.open('bigfile','w') { |mergedFile| Dir.glob("*.txt").each { |
>> file| File.readlines(file).each { |line| mergedFile << line } } }
> 
> system("cat *.txt >bigfile")

Why not directly invoke "cat" from the shell prompt? :-)

Kind regards

	robert