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From: Dotan Cohen on 6 May 2010 12:30
Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its
possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to
the end of the file. Thanks.

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From: Dotan Cohen on 6 May 2010 12:40
On 6 May 2010 19:31, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> Quoting Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its
>> possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to
>> the end of the file. Thanks.
>
>  use ">>" instead of ">".
>
> rday
>
>

Great, thanks!

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From: Robert P. J. Day on 6 May 2010 12:40
Quoting Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com>:

> Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its
> possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to
> the end of the file. Thanks.

use ">>" instead of ">".

rday


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From: Kumar Appaiah on 6 May 2010 12:40
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:26:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its
> possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to
> the end of the file. Thanks.

The double > (>>) operator?

I'd also recommend that you check out tee and tee -a.

Kumar
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From: Dotan Cohen on 6 May 2010 12:40
> The double > (>>) operator?
>

Yes!


> I'd also recommend that you check out tee and tee -a.
>

Nice, that's not what I need here, but I do have use for it in a
script that's been giving me trouble if it will output to a shell
variable. Thanks!

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