append to a text file

Guy Abandon. text.tools at virgin.net
Sat Sep 6 06:31:35 EDT 2003


I agree with the basic though for safety would have said:-

$ cat file1 file2 >file3

GA!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <davros at ycardz.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: append to a text file


Try this:
cat file-to-append-to >> file-to-append
Note the two greater-thans. Better use both, 





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