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From: broome@daffy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Append file commands for Unix & ex/vi
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Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 16:43:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 16:43:50 1987
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Organization: Abel Image Research, Los Angeles
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Keywords: There's an easier way.


You don't need to use aliases or even shell commands -- to append text to 
an existing file in vi, simply say "'a,'b w >> file" ...

This assumes that you've marked the range with "a" & "b", but you can also
use the other usual ways of naming lines (numbers, ".", "$", etc.) 
You can also leave out the range altogether and append the entire current
file onto the other file, like so: "w >> file".

Hope that helps...


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