globcat

Concatenate files in alphabetical order from command line with glob pattern.

Install

npm install [--global] globcat

Usage

import globcat from 'globcat'
const options = {
  /*...*/
}

// just the one...
globcat('**/*.txt', (err, contents) => {
  // contents contains the file contents of the matched files
  // err is an error object or null
})

// ... or with array
globcat(['path/to/file.txt', 'other/path/*.txt'], options, (err, contents) => {
  // contents contains the file contents of the matched files
  // err is an error object or null
})

// as promise
globcat(['path/to/file.txt', 'other/path/*.txt'], options)
  .then(function (contents) {
    // use contents
  })
  .catch(function (err) {
    // handle error
  })

Options

• stream Set to true to get a readable stream instead of string in the callback. Defaults to false.
• glob Is passed through to glob. For option details please view the glob package. Thanks glob and minimatch for your excellence! :)

Command Line

Using CLI arguments:

globcat path/*.txt other/**/*.txt --output combined.txt

Using pipes:

cat file-with-paths.txt | globcat > combined.txt

Oneliner without installing using npx, use --quiet to suppress output from npx itself:

npx --quiet globcat *.txt > all.txt

To see available options run globcat --help.