Getting output on the same line of a file in DOS?

Question

If I have output from two sources that I want to put together on the same line, how would I do that?

In my case I have a file and a program. The file is something like this:

listOfThings=

My program outputs a list of strings on a single line. I want have a small script that runs nightly to put these two things together on a single line. I can't figure out how to do this right though

example batch file

type header.txt > outputfile.txt
myProgram >> outputfile.txt

which results in this:

listOfThings=
foo bar baz etc

I really need the output file to have the list immediately follow the =, but I can't figure out how to do it with the >> operator. (and before anyone suggests it, I can't do something like put a \ on the end of the listOfThings= line, that won't work for what I'm trying to do)

Answer 1

Have you made sure that header.txt doesn't have any line separators in it at all? (Ie, the = is the very last byte of the file).

Also, try copying header.txt to outputfile.txt in case type is appending a line feed on it's own.

Answer 2

You need to make sure that the contents of header.txt does not have a carriage return linefeed pair in it. Look at it with a hex editor and make sure there is no 0x0d0a in it.