Here in the “we work on computers” industry, we’re always dealing with CSVs – combining, cleaning, analyzing, crying in front of – you name it.
So, allow me make it just one micron less painful for you – by show you how to combine CSVs together in a matter of seconds.
Relax! I’m getting there..
Just kidding – i just needed to stuff that keyword phrase to pick up a couple more terms for SEO purposes.
But actually there’s a few ways to do it:
In this article (and video) I will show you how to quickly & easily combine and merge multiple CSV files into one CSV file for free on a mac using the terminal — but it also works on PCs.
If you run into any problems – we even created a free tool that you can try.
So follow along, and start combining!
Update: Back in the day I shot a video about how to do this manually on a mac, and it still works. But since then we’ve had a lot of people ask about doing it on a PC.
So we actually just made a tool that combines CSVs for you.
And it’s way faster than the manual method.
And it’s free.
Here’s a link to the tool for all you lazies who don’t wanna read or watch a video: CSV Combiner Tool
Create a new folder on your Desktop & put all of your CSV files into the folder.
I will call mine “combine”.
It will look like this:
Caution: Everything in this folder will be combined.
The program “Terminal” is located in your “Applications” folder under “Utilities”
Open Terminal.
It will look like this:
This is a fancy name. Don’t worry about it, just follow the steps.
pwdreturn keypwdpwd means “print working directory”. It’s showing you what “directory” (aka folder) you are currently at on your operating system. Don’t worry about it. Just keep following along.
Set your “directory” to the folder you created that has your CSV files in it.
cd /Users/devin/Desktop/combine <== obviously replace “devin” with your name… unless your name is devin.return keyNote: you will need to change your file path so it matches your username & folder name
Now you are ready to merge your files.
cat *.csv >combined.csvreturn key
If you followed along correctly, you are done!
Inside your folder there will be a file called “combined.csv”, which contains all of your csv files combined together.
Note: you might have to delete the duplicate header columns though.
Just apply a filter to your entire sheet, and sort A-Z on column A and you should see them.
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Create a new folder on your Desktop & put all of your CSV files into the folder.
I will call mine “combine”.
It will look like this:
Caution: Everything in this folder will be combined.
The program “Terminal” is located in your “Applications” folder under “Utilities”
Open it.
It will look something like this:
This is a fancy name. Don’t worry about it, just follow the steps.
pwdreturn keyIt will look like this:
pwd means “print working directory”.
It’s showing you what “directory” (aka folder) you are currently at on your operating system.
Don’t worry about it. Just keep following along.
Set your “directory” to the folder you created that has your CSV files in it.
cd /Users/devin/Desktop/combine <== obviously replace “devin” with your name… unless your name is devin.return keyNote: you will need to change your file path so it matches your username & folder name
Now you are ready to merge your files.
cat *.csv >combined.csvreturn key
It will look like this:
If you followed along correctly, you are done!
Inside your folder there will be a file called “combined.csv”, which contains all of your csv files combined together.
Note: you might have to delete the duplicate header columns though.
Just apply a filter to your entire sheet, and sort A-Z on column A and you should see them.
It will look like this:
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