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[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:12:38PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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

i.e. make the redirection apply to the cat command ;-)

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