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Concatenating a bunch of files

08.03.07 10:02 | Mac OS X

A useful little tidbit. To merge the contents of all the files in an arbitrary directory hierachy into one single file, while skipping dot-files:

> find . -type f \! -name ".*" -exec cat {} > /Users/filipp/specs.txt \;