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@xxxxxxxx> 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!
