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Re: Where is "append" command



On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
>  Debian (testing/unstable)
>  
>  I could not find the "append" command
>  
>  # which append
>  # whereis append
>   had no printout
>  
> I'm going to add following line to /etc/lilo.conf
>  
>  # append "hdc=ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf 
>  bash: append: command not found

You're confused: append="hdc=ide-scsi" is a line you put in
/etc/lilo.conf, *not* a shell command. Use an editor.

In answer to your question as asked, 'echo whatever >> filename' appends
a line containing "whatever" to filename; but this isn't what you really
want here.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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