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Bugz - Feb 9, 2009 at 11:34 AM
lami20j Posts 21506 Registration date Wednesday November 3, 2004 Status Moderator, Security contributor Last seen October 8, 2012 - Feb 14, 2009 at 03:35 PM
Hey right, this is a quicky. i want a script where the user types in some data in command line,
it saves it and formats it.

i no that i can use " cat >> Filename" to create the file and to place data in it.
but i cant seem to close it and then be able to format that data all in one srcipt

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lami20j Posts 21506 Registration date Wednesday November 3, 2004 Status Moderator, Security contributor Last seen October 8, 2012 2
Feb 14, 2009 at 03:35 PM
Hi,

Like this?! 

lami20j@debian:~/trash$ cat <<END >file.txt
> i no that i can use " cat >> Filename" to create the file and to place data in it.
> but i cant seem to close it and then be able to format that data all in one srcipt
> END
lami20j@debian:~/trash$ cat file.txt
i no that i can use " cat >> Filename" to create the file and to place data in it.
but i cant seem to close it and then be able to format that data all in one srcipt

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