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Cat command and echo
I'd like to concatenate the output from echo with content of a file. I've tried the following comand:
echo "abc" | cat 1.txt > 2.txt
but the 2.txt file only contains the content from 1.txt. Why ...
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Why does echo work through pipe but not cat with msmtp?
This works:
echo "yada yada" | msmtp [email protected]
but not this:
cat yadayada.txt | msmtp [email protected]
which delivers the email with empty content.
Why does echo work through pipe but not cat ...
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How to prepend contents of a file to another
This question relates to the already asked question How to add text to beginning of file
The answer suggested by Dennis Williamson does the job:
echo 'task goes here' | cat - todo.txt > temp &...
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