Combine text files eliminating duplicate lines

Dave Behman posted code for a Windows batch file here, which can be used to combine two text files and eliminate any duplicate lines.

So let's say you have one text file like this:

. . . and a second text file like this:

. . . and you want to combine them into a single text file which only lists each U.S. president once.

Enter this code in a new text file:

@echo off copy USPresidents1.txt merge.txt >nul findstr /lvxig:USPresidents1.txt USPresidents2.txt >>merge.txt type merge.txt

Save the new text file with the extension, '.bat' and double-click on it. You will get this result:

get a directory's tree structure

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C:. ├───.docx Folder2 ├───.js Folder ├───.pdf Folder ├───.txt Folder ├───.xls Folder ├───.xlsx Folder ├───baseball │ ├───annual │ └───xls ├───beer ├───codec │ ├───lagarith3 │ └───lagarith6 ├───doc ├───droid ├───email ├───eml │ └───EML Data ├───excels ├───txt └───zip ├───BMP ├───DOC ├───DWG ├───GIF ├───JPG ├───PDF ├───TXT ├───WAV └───XLS

Windows TYPE command to combine files

You can use the Windows command TYPE to command multiple text files. In this example we have a folder of multiple text files and we want to merge the content of each into a single text file.

Enter the command TYPE followed by a wildcard search for text files and then designate a new text file to contain the content of the source files:

>TYPE *.txt >combine.txt

The names of the source files will be listed in command prompt and the new 'combine.txt' file will have their content.