append to a text file

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  If "stuff" is the stuff to add to "collection" then try

cat "stuff" >> "collection"

          Kenny

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 06:28:11AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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