Append file commands for Unix & ex/vi

[romwa at utcs.uucp]

The simplest way I know of to write a range of text out to
the end of another file is:

1) Bring up last line mode (the colon).
2) Type "n,nw !cat >> filename"

where "n,n" is the line range of text to be written.

I believe this is a not-to-obvious feature of vi.

Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Ontario

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