#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright 2019 The Chromium Authors # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be # found in the LICENSE file. # # This utility concatenates several files into one. On Unix-like systems # it is equivalent to: # cat file1 file2 file3 ...files... > target # # The reason for writing a separate utility is that 'cat' is not available # on all supported build platforms, but Python is, and hence this provides # us with an easy and uniform way of doing this on all platforms. # for py2/py3 compatibility from __future__ import print_function import optparse import sys def Concatenate(filenames): """Concatenate files. Args: files: Array of file names. The last name is the target; all earlier ones are sources. Returns: True, if the operation was successful. """ if len(filenames) < 2: print("An error occurred generating %s:\nNothing to do." % filenames[-1]) return False try: with open(filenames[-1], "wb") as target: for filename in filenames[:-1]: with open(filename, "rb") as current: target.write(current.read()) return True except IOError as e: print("An error occurred when writing %s:\n%s" % (filenames[-1], e)) return False def main(): parser = optparse.OptionParser() parser.set_usage("""Concatenate several files into one. Equivalent to: cat file1 ... > target.""") (_options, args) = parser.parse_args() sys.exit(0 if Concatenate(args) else 1) if __name__ == "__main__": main()