[plug] Here documents

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Oct 3 12:12:38 WST 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:01:03PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:

| cat <<EOF
| some text that
| I want to add
| to the end of my
| file
| EOF
| >>somefile.txt

Try moving the ">>somefile" to the top line, like so:

cat >>somefile.txt <<EOF
blah
EOF

CP.

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