General ⇒ \include all files from a directory?

[cyberman]

Hello!

I am making a cooking book in latex and every recipe is written in an external .tex file. They are all in a separate directory.

Now every time I add a new recipe texfile, I have to \include it in my main.tex file.

Is it possible to \include ALL files at once from the directory with all the recipe files? Something like \include{recipes\*.tex} would be useful.

Thank you!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

It's easily possible on Linux and Unix systems, since they provide shell commands for listing and parsing directory contents. Some solutions are here:

• Inputting multiple files in LaTeX
• How to iterate through the name of files in a folder

I guess you use Windows, since you use a backslash in the path, not a slash. That makes it more difficult in my opinion, however you could write a bash file or use any programming language. TeX does not provide many ways for file handling, this is left to the operating system or external tools.

Stefan