I need help from Unix gurus on AT.
I want to be able to append some text to the end of a file. For example, I want to do:
prompt% <some_unix_command> "Version 3.1" <file_to_append_to>
The result would be that after opening the <file_to_append_to> in a text editor would show "Version 3.1" at the end.
It could be any combination of commands like "cat" or "echo" and can use the ">" or ">>" or "|" as needed.
I can't do something like:
prompt% cat >> <file_to_append>
The reason is because it needs to the text from standard input to append to the file. I can't manually type in the text in the script I'm using. The text to append would have to be passed in as a parameter to the command.
Any ideas?
I want to be able to append some text to the end of a file. For example, I want to do:
prompt% <some_unix_command> "Version 3.1" <file_to_append_to>
The result would be that after opening the <file_to_append_to> in a text editor would show "Version 3.1" at the end.
It could be any combination of commands like "cat" or "echo" and can use the ">" or ">>" or "|" as needed.
I can't do something like:
prompt% cat >> <file_to_append>
The reason is because it needs to the text from standard input to append to the file. I can't manually type in the text in the script I'm using. The text to append would have to be passed in as a parameter to the command.
Any ideas?
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