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From: det@herman.UUCP (Derek Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Append file commands for Unix & ex/vi
Message-ID: <178@herman.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 01:03:01 EST
Article-I.D.: herman.178
Posted: Thu Jan 15 01:03:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 00:32:53 EST
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Organization: Unisys Inc.-CSD  Eagan,MN
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Keywords: append command unix ex vi
Summary: yes virginia, you *can* append in vi

In vi (and i'm sure that ex works the same way) to append do a:

:23,45w>>file

to append lines 23 through 45 to file: file