Combine Text Documents

My old hoster had the habit of providing me with 20 Megabyte log file chunks that I could download to my computer. I did run a great forum back then that had lots of traffic and I always had to download several log files and combine them when they were downloaded on my computer. That’s one practical use for the software TxtCollector which combines text documents found in folders and subfolders that the user specifies.

The author of the software used it to combine reports that he received at work. Having one file instead of many has some advantages. It’s pretty obvious for log files but it also provides a better way of handling files when you look at the report example. It is easier to search inside one document than it is to search in several documents, it’s also easier to keep an overview.

Using TxtCollector is not difficulty. Just select a folder with text documents that you want to merge, check or uncheck the Include Subfolders option, select if you want to use a separator or not and click on the Combine All Files button.

The application runs on all Windows operating systems starting with Windows 95 and including Windows Vista.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday March 20, 2008 -
Tags:documents, merge logs, merge text, Software, Windows

Responses so far:

1. Yogi says:

   March 20, 2008 at 2:46 pm

   Would you believe that just hours after you posted this – I found that I needed exactly this tool?

   Thanks again, Martin!

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2. Roman ShaRP says:

   March 20, 2008 at 4:59 pm

   You already wrote about it on Ghacks. Of course, it worth be mentioned again once more ;)

   But you again forgot to mention, that it can merge HTML files too :)

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3. Martin says:

   March 20, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   Roman I had that nagging thought in my head all the time telling me that I knew this program and probably wrote an article about it already. Was to lazy to look it up. As you said it’s a nice program worth mentioning and it helped Yogi :)

   Reply
4. linuxeventually says:

   March 21, 2008 at 12:09 am

   So essentially this is like the Linux command
   #cat file1 file2 > mergedfiles
   but with a GUI and for Windows

   Reply
5. Ian says:

   June 30, 2008 at 10:58 pm

   I am having issues with this running on vista, you said above that it is compatible, but I am still having problems. It won’t install and says, “Unable to register the DLL/OCX: RegSvr32 Failed with exit code 0×3″ Do any of you guys have any ideas?

   Thanks

   Ian

   Reply