shell - Concatenating multiple text files into a single file in Bash

Question

What is the quickest and most pragmatic way to combine all *.txt file in a directory into one large text file?

Currently I'm using windows with cygwin so I have access to BASH.

Windows shell command would be nice too but I doubt there is one.

Answer 1

This appends the output to all.txt

cat *.txt >> all.txt

This overwrites all.txt

cat *.txt > all.txt