[Chapter 30] 30.13 Appending to an Existing File
Author: Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly & Mike Loukides
Date: 1998-08-04T21:45:26Z

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| Chapter 30 vi Tips and Tricks |

## 30.13 Appending to an Existing File

You can use the UNIX redirect and append operator (`>>`) with `w` to append all or part of the contents of the buffer to an existing file. For example, if you entered:

>     :1,10w newfile

and then:

    $
    :340,$w >>newfile

newfile would contain lines 1-10 and line 340 to the end of the buffer.

- TOR from O'Reilly & Associates' Learning the vi Editor, Chapter 5

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