Merging and converting a Windows folder?

Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[Robert Kingett]

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I've tried to look online, for both a powershell command and a CMD command, 
possibly even a batch file, that would concatenate/merge multiple Markdown, 
.MD, files in a directory and then output it as one, merged, file, but 
nothing I've found works, so could someone point me in the right direction?

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Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[John O'Regan]

Hi Robert,

The following cmd command appends file2.md to the end of file1.md:

type file2.md >> file1.md

After the command is executed, file2.md is unchanged while file1.md
has been modified.

Is that what you want, or am I missing something?

Thanks!

John

Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[BPJ]

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You can just list the files on the command line as multiple inputs and
pandoc will merge them automatically:

pandoc -o merged.ext chap-1.md chap-2.md chap-3.md

(where .ext is .html, .pdf or whatever.)

Tip: if the files have different names you can give them leading
zero-padded (all with the same number of digits) at the start of the file
names:

0010-foreword.md
0020-introduction.md
0030-problem.md
0040-this.md
...
0070-that.md
...
0100-conclusions.md

And then you should be able to just say

pandoc -o merged.ext *.md

and the files should be correctly ordered by the shell.

The point of "spacing out" the numbers as I did above is that if you add or
rearrange a file you can just change its number to something intermediate
instead of renumbering all the files; e.g. if you want to move the "that"
chapter to before the "this" chapter you just rename it 0035-that.md. I
realize that e.g. in a dissertation you are not as likely to rearrange
chapters, but e.g. in documentation, where I work nowadays, it happens with
some frequency.

I hope this is helpful.

/bpj

Den ons 18 jan. 2023 15:58Robert Kingett <kingettspeaks-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I've tried to look online, for both a powershell command and a CMD
> command, possibly even a batch file, that would concatenate/merge multiple
> Markdown, .MD, files in a directory and then output it as one, merged,
> file, but nothing I've found works, so could someone point me in the right
> direction?
>
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Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[kingettspeaks-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w]

It does help! If I have multiple files in a folder the way you outlined, does the YAML have to be in all the chapters or can it just be in 001?

Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[BPJ]

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It can be in the first file but I would put it in its own metadata.yaml
file and include it with the --metadata-file=YAMLFILENAME option. That way
you can convert the files singleton if you wish.

Den tors 19 jan. 2023 13:16 <kingettspeaks-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> It does help! If I have multiple files in a folder the way you outlined,
> does the YAML have to be in all the chapters or can it just be in 001?
>

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Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[Robert Kingett]

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Wanted to bring this up again, I found a really easy way to convert all 
files in a directory, while merging them as well. The below command should 
be used in powershell.

pandoc (get-item *.txt).FullName -o final.docx

If you wanted to convert a directory of Docx files and merge them all into 
one, use the below command. I kept the --wrap=none in there because your 
text will look ghastly otherwise, so it's best to have no wrapping at all 
when converting to an MD or TXT file.

pandoc (get-item *.docx).FullName --wrap=none -o final.md
On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:18:23 PM UTC-6 BPJ wrote:

> It can be in the first file but I would put it in its own metadata.yaml 
> file and include it with the --metadata-file=YAMLFILENAME option. That way 
> you can convert the files singleton if you wish.
>
> Den tors 19 jan. 2023 13:16 <kinget...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>
>> It does help! If I have multiple files in a folder the way you outlined, 
>> does the YAML have to be in all the chapters or can it just be in 001?
>>
>

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Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[Robert Kingett]

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This has been very helpful so far! I get an error when I try and run one of 
your commands, though. I am trying the numbered files method, with all 
chapters in a folder, numbered like so.

0010-intro.md

0020-part1.md

0030-part2.md.

With all the files in the directory, I run the following command.

pandoc -s -o merged.odt *.md

The error I get is,

pandoc: *.md: withBinaryFile: invalid argument (Invalid argument)

Any ideas on what could be the problem with the above? All of your other 
suggestions have worked so far!
On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 3:28:54 AM UTC-6 BPJ wrote:

> You can just list the files on the command line as multiple inputs and 
> pandoc will merge them automatically:
>
> pandoc -o merged.ext chap-1.md chap-2.md chap-3.md
>
> (where .ext is .html, .pdf or whatever.)
>
> Tip: if the files have different names you can give them leading 
> zero-padded (all with the same number of digits) at the start of the file 
> names:
>
> 0010-foreword.md
> 0020-introduction.md
> 0030-problem.md
> 0040-this.md
> ...
> 0070-that.md
> ...
> 0100-conclusions.md
>
> And then you should be able to just say
>
> pandoc -o merged.ext *.md
>
> and the files should be correctly ordered by the shell.
>
> The point of "spacing out" the numbers as I did above is that if you add 
> or rearrange a file you can just change its number to something 
> intermediate instead of renumbering all the files; e.g. if you want to move 
> the "that" chapter to before the "this" chapter you just rename it 
> 0035-that.md. I realize that e.g. in a dissertation you are not as likely 
> to rearrange chapters, but e.g. in documentation, where I work nowadays, it 
> happens with some frequency.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> /bpj
>
> Den ons 18 jan. 2023 15:58Robert Kingett <kinget...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>
>> I've tried to look online, for both a powershell command and a CMD 
>> command, possibly even a batch file, that would concatenate/merge multiple 
>> Markdown, .MD, files in a directory and then output it as one, merged, 
>> file, but nothing I've found works, so could someone point me in the right 
>> direction?
>>
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>> .
>>
>

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