Concatenating multiple text files into a single file in Bash

Question

What is the quickest and most pragmatic way to combine all *.txt file in a directory into one large text file? Currently I'm using windows with cygwin so I have access to BASH. Windows shell command would be nice too but I doubt there is one.

Accepted Answer

This appends the output to all.txt

```
cat *.txt >> all.txt
```

This overwrites all.txt

```
cat *.txt > all.txt
```

Concatenating multiple text files into a single file in Bash

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