When appending multiple text files to a big one (for instance to post-processing on the total: dedupe, sort, gather statistics, etc) you often will find one or more of the source files missing a CRLF.
So you will have to insert those carriage return line feed combo’s manually.
Well, mr Jones points out that:
there’s actually an easy way to simply echo a carriage return and line feed instead, by just issuing an echo command followed immediately by a period (no space in between), like this:
echo. >> somefile.txt
Thanks Jared!
–jeroen
via: Dear Mister Jones » How to insert a carriage return with batch.
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