I have one Master and I'd like to concatenate several files into one using the FILEDEF command if possible.

The files in question are the EDAPRINT files. Five files are kept in the wfs directory and I'd like to read them all together, as one file.

FILEDEF EDAPRINT1 DISK D:\ibi\srv53\wfs\edaprint.log

How do I get edapri01.log, edapri02.log, edapri03.log, edapri04.log and edaprint.log all read together?

I know I can FILEDEF and PRINT/HOLD each one of them individually and then MORE the HOLD files, but is there another way?

Thank you,

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Francis Mariani,

You're in a wintel world?
How about DOS commands to copy them and append them into 1 big file, then read that, and then the big file dies with the agent.

COPY [/D] [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z] [/A | /B ] source [/A | /B]
     [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination [/A | /B]]

  source       Specifies the file or files to be copied.
  /A           Indicates an ASCII text file.
  /B           Indicates a binary file.
  /D           Allow the destination file to be created decrypted
  destination  Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s).
  /V           Verifies that new files are written correctly.
  /N           Uses short filename, if available, when copying a file with a
               non-8dot3 name.
  /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.
  /-Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.
  /Z           Copies networked files in restartable mode.

The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line.  Default is
to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from
within a batch script.

To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files
for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).

or is that just tooo last millenium?

Susannah, why not go Old School? Thanks, Francis.

Say, Francis, would this work?
CMD COPY MYFILE D:\ibi\srv53\wfs\edaprint*.log

it says 'wilcards or ...'
worth a try

If you want the latest 4 logs

-SET &edalogs='C:\ibi-dev\ibi\srv76\wfs\';
!dir &edalogs.EVAL*.log /B/O-D > alllogs.txt
FILEDEF ALLLOGS DISK alllogs.txt
-RUN
-READ ALLLOGS &EF1.A12.
-READ ALLLOGS &EF2.A12.
-READ ALLLOGS &EF3.A12.
-READ ALLLOGS &EF4.A12.
!COPY &edalogs.EVAL&EF1+&edalogs.EVAL&EF2+&edalogs.EVAL&EF3+&edalogs.EVAL&EF4 last4logs.log

Btw Susannah, its copy from-to not to-from

the point was the wildcard

OK

!COPY C:\ibi\srv76\wfs\*.log alllogs.log

that works

Solved! Thanks Susannah and JG.

-*-- Concatenate all edaprint log files into one file --------------------------
!COPY D:\ibi\srv53\wfs\edapri*.log D:\temp\edaprint.log
-RUN