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lenni

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 95

Adding text to the end of a file with ed or vi

I've been googling for a while but have not found an answer.

The ed tutorial always discuss everything in such detail but I only want to know how to add some text to the end of a file as part of a shell script.

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barry

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 39

Re: Adding text to the end of a file with ed or vi

echo "random text" >> filename

magnum_opus

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Registered: 2005-01-26

Posts: 132

Re: Adding text to the end of a file with ed or vi

ed foo.txt
a
words
.

a for append, then end a single . on a line ends append mode
w and q to save and quit of course

not quite sure how to do it with vi, though in ex mode the ed commands work fine

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Adding text to the end of a file with ed or vi

The tee command allows more control than redirecting:

echo "message" | tee -a