append to a text file

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Well, not to split hairs or anything, but that is not really
appending one file to another. It is concatenating two files and
putting the result into a third. To clarify, what if I had a file
called "collection" and I wanted to append stuff to it from time
to time, always keeping the name "collection" for the
accumulation of all the stuff I might append there?


Granted, the double greater-than is dangerous because it is easy
to forget to double it, which means you kiss the older stuff
bye-bye, but we already know that Linux assumes you know what you
are doing.

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Guy Abandon. wrote:

> 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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