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Inserting text into a doc with a shellscript?
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headbirth
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Apr 27, 2004, 07:27 AM
 
Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get a shell script to insert a text string into a document.

I'm looking to use this with OnMyCommand CM.

Thanks!
     
Arkham_c
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Apr 27, 2004, 08:00 AM
 
Originally posted by headbirth:
Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get a shell script to insert a text string into a document.

I'm looking to use this with OnMyCommand CM.

Thanks! 
Code:


echo "This is a string to insert" >> /tmp/somedocument.txt
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