Append same text to many files using cat or echo?
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Use tee
to read from standard input and write to standard output and files.
echo "hello" | tee -a file1 file2
-a
is the short (and portable/standard) for GNU tee's --append
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neo0
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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neo0 almost 2 years
How can I write the same content to many text files by using
cat
orecho
in only one command?For example I want to write "hello" to file1 and file2. I tried:
echo "hello" >> file1 file2
but it didn't work. How can I do it?
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Brian Bruman over 7 yearsThanks, can flip it around for heredoc:
tee -a aaa bbb ccc << EOF contents ... EOF
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