Concatenating multiple text files into a single file in Bash

Just remember, for all the solutions given so far, the shell decides the order in which the files are concatenated. For Bash, IIRC, that's alphabetical order. If the order is important, you should either name the files appropriately (01file.txt, 02file.txt, etc...) or specify each file in the order you want it concatenated.

$ cat file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 > out.txt

This appends the output to all.txt

cat *.txt >> all.txt

This overwrites all.txt

cat *.txt > all.txt

You can use Windows shell copy to concatenate files.

C:\> copy *.txt outputfile

From the help:

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