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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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rjbull:
Unix  cat  in various ports to Windows/DOS

Carol Haynes:
How about good old edlin (built in to DOS and WinXP Command Windows)

See Edlin Command Help

There is also mouse driven DOS command Edit

dajo:
Stefan mentioned SED and AWK, which are both command-line text manipulation tools.  SED is the simplest, and is best used for regular expression search and replace.  AWK is its own little programming language, and is a more powerful than SED, but much lighter than Perl.

I spent a lot of time exploring text manipulation tools a few years back.  I ended up using AWK and Perl for most things, but then I found Datamystic's TextPipe Pro (shareware, $299) http://snipurl.com/leapfrog_textpipe, for it's power and ease of use.  I became such a fan of the product that I have since become a reseller.

I might be able to work out a discount deal on TextPipe for DonationCoder members only... Mouser, I will contact you about this offline.

mouser:
textpipe really looks like a great application; probably even with a real discount it would be out of range for most of us but still any discount for our members would be welcome, and you might just make someone's day :)  :up:

rjbull:
Stefan mentioned SED and AWK, which are both command-line text manipulation tools.  SED is the simplest, and is best used for regular expression search and replace.  AWK is its own little programming language, and is a more powerful than SED, but much -dajo (October 06, 2005, 08:21 AM)
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Uh, I ended up feeling that SED was a bit like trying to use an early programmable calculator, and that AWK was actually easier simply because it's more like a recognisable language.  Eric Pement has a good Web site for both and also for the kind of command line tools Stefan mentioned (go to his SED page and keep paging down);

Eric Pement's  Web site; SED, Awk, Perl, search-and-replace utilities including useful supplementary information, help and workarounds for Minitrue / MT / MTR / Ministry of Truth under Windows 2000 / Win2K.

http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/index.htm

One set of Unix utils ported to Windows and including CAT is at
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net

Mouser, here's the online help for the Berkley utils version of cat, more informative than the GNU equivalent;

=== begin quote ===
usage: berkcat file(s)
Concatenates the file(s) to the standard output.
If one of the files is `-', the standard input is used.
No options.
Example:
       C:>cat - file1 >newfile
       this is the new first line
       and this is the second.
       ^Z
       C:>mv newfile file1

This is a way to add 2 lines to the beginning of file1 without using
an editor.

To append file1 at the end of file2, type
        cat file1 >> file2
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