Re: vi within a shel script

[Steve Horrighs <steve@cityscape.net>]

this will work... prolly a better way ;)

EXISTING=`cat ~/subscriber`
NEWLINE="$EXISTING $1"
echo $NEWLINE > ~/subscriber

make sure subscriber is there (touch subscriber)....

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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 charles@lunargraphics.net wrote:

> set UserName = $<
> vi ./subscribers
> A $UserName
> :! :wq
> 
> how would one take input from a variable and append it to the end of a
> line within a text file? I tried the above, and needless to say, it doesnt
> work. the one hitch is that is must append the text to the end of one
> contiguous line with no carriage returns. any suggestions?
> 


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