Ben, it worked, thank you guys.
Aldo ________________________________ From: Ben Eisenbraun <b...@klatsch.org> To: aldo albanese <aldo_alban...@yahoo.com> Cc: Gregory Boyce <gbo...@badbelly.com>; "discuss@blu.org" <discuss@blu.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss] insert text in a large file without open it Hi Aldo, > Hi Greg, > I appreciated you fast response. > when I execute the following > echo "Un!sphere8" >> '/user/filename.txt' ! is a reserved word in the shell. 'man bash' for the rest of them. Instead use one of: echo Un\!sphere8 >> '/user/filename.txt' echo 'Un!sphere8' >> '/user/filename.txt' You can read about the quoting rules in the man page as well. -b -- if you can't be just, be arbitrary. <william s. burroughs> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
