append to a text file

[Guy Abandon.]

I agree with both your main  points, though just felt pointing out the
safety issue since the question, such a basic one, was asked.
otherwise, I do:-

$ mv realfile.ext realfile.old; cat realfile.old newstuff.ext
>realfile.ext

I'm a belt and braces man as you can tell.

GA!

Since playing with that FPC, I now have a little thing for producing
lists of commands for working on material in a whole bunch of sub
directories.  I guess AWK or something could have done the same, but I
found it quicker to write in pascal I knew then learn AWK or whatever.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: append to a text file


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>>

snip!