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Subject: RE: command to add file contents to end of existing file
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On Wed, January 4, 2006 10:40, fbsd_user wrote:
>> I know I have done this in the past, but having brain fart today.
>>
>> What is command or command sequence to copy the contents of file
B
>> to the end of the contents of file A?
>>
>how about:  % cat B >> A

  Thanks to all who responded

this is what I used before and could not remember.