[Discuss] insert text in a large file without open it

[aldo albanese]

Hi Greg,
I appreciated you fast response.  
when I execute the following 
echo "Un!sphere8" >> '/user/filename.txt'
I get this message
bash: !sphere875": event not found.  unusual, it takes the "Un" from the error given.

Aldo


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 From: Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>
To: aldo albanese <aldo_albanese at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "discuss at blu.org" <discuss at blu.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] insert text in a large file without open it
 
Sounds like you just want to append.

echo "text to append" >> filename.txt

a single > overwrites the file.  double > appends to the end of the file.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:00 PM, aldo albanese <aldo_albanese at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a large text file, about 9 gig.  I would like to insert a text at the end of the file without open it, is it possible?
> I'm reading about sed command but is giving some errors.  This is what I'm using as syntax sed 'textaaa' filename.
>
> Thanks,
> Aldo
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