combined files together

[Gary Wessle]

Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com> writes:

> Gary Wessle wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >is there a module to do things like concatenate all files in a given
> >directory into a big file, where all the files have the same data
> >formate?
> >name address phone_no.
> >
> >or do I have to open each, read from old/write-or-append to new ...
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >
> There's hardly enough code here to make a module out of this:
> 
> combined = open('...', 'wb')
> for name in os.listdir(path):

I need to traverse those files in the order they were created
chronologically. listdir() does not do it, is there a way besides
build a list then list.sort(), then for element in list_of_files open
element?

thanks

> infile = open(os.path.join(path,name), 'rb')
> for line in infile:
> combined.write(line)
> 
> It could be more efficient by reading larger chunks than single lines,
> and could be more accurate by closing both input and output files when
> done, but you get the point I hope.
> 
> On the other hand, if you've got the right OS, you might try something like:
> os.system("cat * > combined")
> 
> Gary Herron