Windows batch file - Concatenate all files in subdirectories

Question

Need to concatenate all of the javascript files in a directory and all of its sub-directories into one file.

Right now I have a very simple command in a batch file t

Answer 1

From the command line you can use

for /r "c:\javascripts" %F in (*.js) do @type "%F" >>concatenated.js

You might want want to first delete any existing concatenated.js before you run the above command.

From a batch file the percents need to be doubled

@echo off
del concatenated.js
for /r "c:\javascripts" %%F in (*.js) do type "%%F" >>concatenated.js

EDIT
It is a bit more efficient to put parentheses around the entire statement and use a single overwrite redirection instead of append redirection with each iteration. It also eliminates the need to delete the file in the beginning.

>concat.js (for /r "c:\javascripts" %F in (*.js) do @type "%F")

or from batch

@echo off
>concat.js (for /r "c:\javascripts" %%F in (*.js) do type "%%F")

Answer 2

I'm not aware of an approach to do that from a batch file, but you could use a tool like minify

http://code.google.com/p/minify/

to both combine JavaScript files and also minify them (e.g. by removing comments and unnecessary white space).

There are quite a few similar tools for a variety of programming environments.