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Bash (Scripting) - append new lines to a file or variable

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The echo command is the easiest way to append a new line to the end of a file. In this example, "Hello World" will be appended to the end of example.txt.

echo "Hello World" >> example.txt

 

The sed command with the a (append) flag can be used to append lines to a file or variable. For example, let's say you have a file or variable with the following text.

Hello World

 

The following command will add "New Text" to the file or variable. The a flag in this command is used to append.

sed -i '/Hello World/a New Text' $foo

 

In this example, the file or variable will have the following output.

Hello World
New Text

 




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