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 acc

Answer 1

The Windows shell command type can do this:

type *.txt >outputfile

Type type command also writes file names to stderr, which are not captured by the > redirect operator (but will show up on the console).