this is another very specific tool i made for something that i will realistically only need to do once and never again
and instead of using a bash one-liner i decided to write this
amalgam [pattern] [path]
with pattern being a regex(p) pattern and path being the directory you want to coalesce in excruciating pain
the program spits out a file called "amalgam.txt" in the directory you ran it in
many files were harmed in the making of this software