Concatenating a number of .txt files in Java

Read file-by-file and write them to target file. Something like the following:

    OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
    byte[] buf = new byte[n];
    for (String file : files) {
        InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
        int b = 0;
        while ( (b = in.read(buf)) >= 0)
            out.write(buf, 0, b);
        in.close();
    }
    out.close();

Using Apache Commons IO

You could use the Apache Commons IO library. This has the FileUtils class.

// Files to read
File file1 = new File("file1.txt");
File file2 = new File("file2.txt");

// File to write
File file3 = new File("file3.txt");

// Read the file as string
String file1Str = FileUtils.readFileToString(file1);
String file2Str = FileUtils.readFileToString(file2);

// Write the file
FileUtils.write(file3, file1Str);
FileUtils.write(file3, file2Str, true); // true for append

There are also other methods in this class that could help accomplish the task in a more optimal way (eg using streams or lists).

Using Java 7+

If you are using Java 7+

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // Input files
    List<Path> inputs = Arrays.asList(
            Paths.get("file1.txt"),
            Paths.get("file2.txt")
    );

    // Output file
    Path output = Paths.get("file3.txt");

    // Charset for read and write
    Charset charset = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

    // Join files (lines)
    for (Path path : inputs) {
        List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(path, charset);
        Files.write(output, lines, charset, StandardOpenOption.CREATE,
                StandardOpenOption.APPEND);
    }
}