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append text to end of file with cat

posted this in Linux, Redhat Centos, Ubuntu on January 17th, 2013

Objective: Append multiline text with cat

Examples

Tell log rotate to start rotating the http log (this overwrites any existing file)

append to end of file with cat1 append text to end of file with cat
 

append text to end of file with cat

append to end of file with cat2 append text to end of file with cat

Q: What is this magical feature?

A: Here Documents

Linux, Redhat Centos, Ubuntu
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