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anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?

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mouser:
anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?
e.g.

--- ---addlinetofile.exe "c:\notes.txt" "this is a line of text to add"
i could code this easily enough and it would probably be 2 lines of perl but i wonder if anyone knows any existing tools to do this, maybe with some extra functionality?

dajo:
how about

echo "this is a line of text to add" >> c:\notes.txt
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mouser:
thanks dajo, i'm always overlooking the simplest solutions :)

but still i can't help but wonder if there are some existing tools that offer some more functionality i might not have even thought of yet..

AbteriX:
a few Text manipulation tools i know (and try to use):

* DOS (like dajo's)
* sed
* awk

* Title   : FILTER
Version : 4.0
Date    : Mar 24,2000
Author  : J.R. Ferguson, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Download: http://hello.to/ferguson (DOS Filters)


Usage : FILTER [[<]in] [>out] [/option[...]] [...]] [txtopt [...]]

option: C[n,s,d]   Copy n characters from position s to d.
        D[n,p]     Delete n characters at position p.
        E[+/-][n]  Expand tabs ([+]) or replace spacegroups by tabs (-),
                   where n [8] is tab field length.
        F[n,m]     Fill nonblank lines with dots to width n [70],
                   skipping first m [0] lines. Implies /T.
        H          Send this help text to (redirected) output.
        ?          Send this help text to screen (page by page)
        I[n,p]     Insert n spaces at position p.
        J[+/-]     Add/remove Carriage Return before Line Feed [+].
        L[+/-]     Add/remove Line Feed after Carriage Return [+].
        M[n,s,d]   Move n characters from position s to d.
        N[n]       Number lines, use n [4] digits,
        O[n,s,d]   Overwrite n chars from position s to d.
        P          Reset parity bit. Implied by /W.
        R[n]       Remove n trailing lines after processing /S and /X.
        S[n,m]     Skip m lines starting at line n.
        T          Trim trailing blanks. Implied by /F.
        U[+/-]     Convert to upper/lower case [+].
        V[n,s]     Reverse n [all] characters starting at position s.
        W          Wordstar document ==> ASCII textfile. Implies /P.
        X[n,m]     Extract m lines starting at line n.
        Z[+]       Remove NULLs. Z+: also ANSI screen control sequences.

txtopt: /A[+/-][p][*] text   Include lines after  specified text only.
        /B[+/-][p][*] text   Include lines before specified text only.
        /G[+/-][p][*] text   Include lines with the specified text only.


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* FU - Text Filter Utility.  A multi-purpose text line filter.

        Version 3.56  (C) Copyright 1990 by David Lo.  Jun/90

Usage
        -----
        FU :option parameters ...

        where :options is one or more from the following list.  Options
        below are grouped by function.  Parameters in square brackets are
        optional.  A brief description of the option is shown.  Use FU -? or
        FU with no parameters for a list of the options.

        Select lines:
          BEGSTR str [n]               lines after a line with search string
          COPY                         all lines
          DEROFF [str]                 lines without .nroff commands
          ENDSTR str [n]               lines before a line with srch string
          FIND str                     lines containing a string
          FIND0 str                    lines not containing a string
          LINES [first [last]          lines in given line range
          NULL0                        non-blank lines
          OUTSTR str1 str2 [n]         lines outside str1 and str2
          SURSTR str1 str2 [n]         lines between str1 and str2
          UNIQUE                    non-repeating lines in sorted file

        Remap characters:
          ASCII                        zero high-bit
          DEBOX [box_str]              remap box chars to printable chars
          ENC [keyword]                encrypt/decrypt
          LOWER                        convert to lower case
          TRANS old [new]              translate one set of chars to another
          UPPER                        convert to upper case

        Change lines:
          CHANGE old [new]             change one string to another
          DECTRL [HLD]*                delete/change 0..31/128.255 to \nnn
          NUM [n_digits [spaces]]      number lines
          PRINTF [n]                   convert \nnn to characters
          PREFIX str                   add string before line
          SUFFIX str                   add string after line

..... and much more

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* LM  version 2.06 

   The LM command inputs line by line from files or stdin, then
   manipulate the line according to the command line options before
   sending the final form to a file or stdout.

   The main operations supported are grip/non-grip, search/replace,
   synchronised line appendage from other files, input/output line
   selection by line numbers or passwords, spaces/empty lines
   absorption, filewise update or renaming, line width imposition and
   etc. Command line options may be read in from a text file, and input
   lines can also be taken from the command line aline.

 AUTHOR: ¦
 +---------+

   Zhuhan JIANG, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia


Line manipulator  - ver 2.06 January 1997  by Zhuhan Jiang.

usage     lm  [-options] [string1] [string2 etc]
helps     lm  -h (simple help)  lm -H (more help)  lm -hH (manual)

priority  -@ -<* -;* -hH -j# -v -V -X# -/# -{#[]}* -BE*(#) -zZ# -$*(j20-28&#)
          -c# -:* -^*(+1) -fF*(+0**X7-11) -*`* -pP*(M#+2) -iI# -lL# -sS#
          -dD*(C2n#) -g*(G#J1j9!#)[X5] -qr*(j1j2j6-8) -QR*(j3j4j6-8) -()*
          -m*(C3kK*) -Y# -t# -T# -a -A* -~*(C1J2) -=#(X1) -y# -oO#(N#!#) -!#
          -N# -be*(#) -w#(W#) -uU*(+3) -#? -#?(even no. such options) -.# -x#
          *=str, #|?=no. (after a char), ()=related mode, []=forced option
shorthand //# via -f^uU< is #th file of LMFILES, -F//*[;|:]* parses path *
tmpfiles  in TMPDIR or root directory
extendkey (dos) 0? for -$* under -j28 is denoted by 255? e.g. "-/255$;"=F1


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* Minitrue  Version 2.0.2

http://www.pagesz.net/~minitrue
 Copyright (C) 1995-99 Andrew B. Pipkin

MiniTrue 2.0.2 (Alpha #3) for 16-bit DOS  Dec 20 1999
Copyright (C) 1995-99 Andrew Pipkin 
MiniTrue is free software released with no warranty. See COPYING for details.

Usage: mt [-options] [files] - [strings]

-a  search All files                 -b  make Backup files
-c  Case insensitivity               -d  preserve original Datestamps
-e  ignore file Errors               -f  Fold lines at word breaks
-h  begin in Hex mode                -i:FILE read strings from FILE
-k  Keep statistics                  -l  generate Log file
-mNUM set top Margin                 -n  No prompting
-o  use standard Output (grep mode)  -p:SET define set of printing chars
-q  Quiet mode                       -r  Recurse through subdirectories
-s  accelerated Scrolling            -tTABSIZE set Tab size
-u  set region for boolean searches  -v  set Video mode
-w  Whole words only                 -x  use regular eXpressions
-y  skip binarY files                -z  unZip files before searching
-@:FILE read filenames from FILE

Default options: -c -x -z-:.zip:pkunzip:-c -p:[\x20-\x7e\xa0-\xff] -b:* -s6:10

Enter mt -? to view the help file, mt -?:<option> for option information


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want to know about more tools too.


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couldn'd this posting input window be bigger sized ???
e.g. expanded to the left and double in high.

mouser:
cool links, thanks stefan :)

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