Exercise 09-10:
Create a program that receives a list of file names and generates one large output file containing all other files.
Answer:
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# Python From Scratch
# Author: Nilo Ney Coutinho Menezes
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# File: chapter 09/exercise-09-10.py.py
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import sys
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("\nUsage: exercise-09-10.py file1 [file2 file3 fileN]\n\n\n")
sys.exit(1)
output = open("single_output.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8")
for name in sys.argv[1:]:
file = open(name, "r", encoding="utf-8")
for line in file:
output.write(line)
file.close()
output.close()