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Writing to Files

Send command output into files. Write once, then append, then read it back.

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Commands practised here

• echo 'text' > fileWrites text to a file, overwriting any existing content.
• echo 'text' >> fileAppends text to the end of a file.
• cat <file>Displays the contents of a file.

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