Processing multiple files in a directory and merging them with sample text

Hi,
I'm trying to use automator (or applescript, or cmd line) to perform a repetitive action on around 5,000 html files.
Here's the problem, can anyone help with the solution.
Sample text is in a file called sample.txt
I want to add the sample txt content to every file in a directory of my choice.
so the script would need to.
1. work it's way through the directory content.
2. For each file it would append the content of the sample.txt and re-save the file to the original file name.

sorry but in your first message you said you wanted it at the end of the file. also, you didn't really answer my question. an html file in text form usually starts with <html><head>... (it can have other junk there too)
and ends with ...</body></html>.
how do you want to handle that?
cycling through files is not a problem.
if you are using shell script action you can do the following:
1. get specified finder items (put the folder with your html files in there)
2. get folder content
3. run shell script (pass input as arguments)
for f in "$@"
do
#your shell script here
done
In the above "$@" is treated as the ambient folder from step 1 and f as the unix path of an item in that folder.

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