Cat command, quick recap

[nathanjh13]

I'm combining hundreds of text files (phone memos in txt format) into one file. Many are only a handful of words long. I can do this easily enough with cat but there's no separator at all between the entries and it's a big mess, even using -n etc.

thanks

[xenopeek]

This topic has various ways to add a separator between files that you combine: http://superuser.com/questions/103530/how-can-one-join-files-with-seperating-data-in-bash. First answers uses sed magic instead of cat. Second answer captures the cat action in a loop, and adds a separator with the echo command.