Some good ideas.  I then realized I could solve the problem simply,
select all the files in a directory, copy, paste into Textmate (pastes
file names), replaced the linefeeds with spaces, copied that, opened
the shell and then typed (and pasted) cat file1 file2 file3 file4 etc
>destination.txt

Worked like a charm.

Then, after all that, I realized that it was bbEdit that allowed me to
open a slew of files into one.  Handy, that.

Thanks all!

Tom

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko <bibiko@eva.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> On 28.07.2008, at 16:34, Alex Ross wrote:
>
>> On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:20 PM, W. Thomas Leroux wrote:
>>
>>> I have about 45 files I'd like to combine into one, and short of
>>> opening each one and copy & pasting it into the new one, I don't
>>> see a
>>> clear way to do this in Textmate.
>>>
>>> I'm certain there *is* a way, I'm just not seeing it.  Suggestions?
>>
>> In bash you can do something like this:
>>
>> for f in $(ls /path/to/files); do cat $f >> /path/to/newfile; done
>>
>
> Or, if you are using the project drawer you can select the desired
> files and execute a tmcommand ā la:
>
> Input:
> none
> Command:
> eval cat $TM_SELECTED_FILES
> Output:
> Create New Document
>
> or write the output into a file
>
> Input:
> none
> Command:
> eval cat $TM_SELECTED_FILES > ~/Desktop/myoutput.txt
> Output:
> none
>
>
>
> The same could be achieved if one modifies that code to catch
> directories as well.
>
> --Hans
>
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