On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Niclas Hedhman wrote about, Scripting problems.:
> If I have two files, 'abc' and 'def'
>
> and I do a
>
> cat abc def | more >def
What you are doing is catting both files via more and a redirect with
will overwrite the line over and over, use >> instaed of >
> overwrites
>> appends to the bottom of the file.
As to what you are trying to achive i cant imagen, why use "more" ??
cat file1 >>file2
Would be a beter way one would think.
> the content of 'abc' is prepended to the 'def' file.
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> If I create a script;
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> #! /bin/sh
> #
> cat abc def | more >def
>
>
> and run it. The content is NOT prepended.
>
> WHY??
>
> And how to do it instead?
Read the longest manual pages there is;
man bash
>
>
> Niclas
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