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Is there a way to write a BASH script that will append a string to every file in a directory?
e.g., I want to append the string "test" to every .html file in the current working directory I'm in; something like:
echo "test" >> *.html
But of course this doesn't work.
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Type the cat command followed by the file or files you want to add to the end of an existing file. Then, type two output redirection symbols ( >> ) followed by the name of the existing file you want to add to.
bash [filename] runs the commands saved in a file. $@ refers to all of a shell script's command-line arguments. $1 , $2 , etc., refer to the first command-line argument, the second command-line argument, etc. Place variables in quotes if the values might have spaces in them.
To make a new file in Bash, you normally use > for redirection, but to append to an existing file, you would use >> . Take a look at the examples below to see how it works. To append some text to the end of a file, you can use echo and redirect the output to be appended to a file.
Nevermind, I figured it out.
#!/bin/sh
for f in *.html ; do
echo "test" >> $f
done
tee is good for these sorts of things.
echo "test" | tee -a *.html
sed -i.bak '$a append' *.html
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