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 most pragmatic way with the shell is the cat command. other ways include,

awk '1' *.txt > all.txt
perl -ne 'print;' *.txt > all.txt