[TriLUG] Basic bash shell scripting question

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Ryan Leathers wrote:

> The lines below will do what I want, but how can I make
> this more elegant?  Can I accomplish this without creating deleting and
> renaming as seen below?
>
> whoami > name
> cat checked.txt name > checked.new
> rm checked.txt
> rm name
> mv checked.new checked.txt

whoami >> checked.txt

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