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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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Use xargs to send requests to the same server in parallel with netcat

I am trying to devise a one-liner to send text to a simple echo server - but multiple connections in parallel. This is what I'm trying: echo -e A,B,C,D | xargs -d, -i -P 4 echo {} | nc localhost ...
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Internal and external ip

How to find the internal IP and external IP of a linux server by connecting to it using Putty? Secondly, what is the IP address given by the echo $SSH_CLIENT command, is it internal or external? My ...
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Terminal without echo

In the terminal on Solaris 5.9 (ksh), I don't see the characters when typing. I can see the input only after the return key is pressed. I checked terminal settings with stty -a it shows: echo echoe ...
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How to get GNU-Screen Command in Linux to echo locally

I'm looking to run screen screen /dev/ttyS0 115200 and echo my commands locally. This is one of those rare phrases where google spits out a lot of irrelevant results.
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Virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 system unexpectedly responds on TCP echo port 7

We have a virtual system running Windows Server 2008 R2, and it responds on TCP port 7 (echo). (I.e, in response to a SYN it sends ACK,RST, which is enough to make InetAddress#isReachable() return ...
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Change encoding of txt file

When I write : file file1.txt I have this output : Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with CR line terminators Then if I write : file file2.txt I have : ASCII text file2.txt is created by ...
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How do I create a multiline text file with Echo in Windows command prompt?

I'm using Windows 7 and I would like to quickly create a small text file with a few lines of text in the Command prompt. I can create a single line text file with: echo hello > myfile.txt but ...
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Need to pass runtime parameters using echo

I have test.exe application which I run and it ask to enter password twice. In Unix I have seen this can be run using echo command for silent execution without editing the test.exe. In Unix: echo ...
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Linux shell scripting: unexpected variable behavior

I have a variable $myvar that contains two lines, and I want to put first of them into a new variable. When I try: $ myvar1 = $(echo $myvar | head -n 1) It doesn't work because echo doesn't ...
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I can't echo an echo of a mixed up string into a file

This line works as expected on it's own (echo '@$X!'; sleep 3; echo '@$X!') And I need to insert this line in a file using the following command, but it's not working. The echo'ed command must be ...
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How to escape newline in the commandline?

I need to do this: $ echo ' File Contents ' > my-file The problem is that the resulting file contains a newline at the beginning and at the end. I tried this but didn't work: $ echo '\ File ...
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How to print new line character with echo?

I dump a string with hexdump like this 2031 3334 2e30 0a32 2032 3331 302e 000a. It is clear that 0x0a is new line character, however, when I try to echo this string out, I always got 1 430.2 2 13.0 -- ...
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A Unix shell command alternative to echo

I'm trying to output string literals to a file. So far I've been trying to use the echo command, but unfortunately I've discovered it's impossible to output '-n', '-e' or '-E' (at least not without ...
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Characters typed won't appear in the command line when connected via TELNET

On Windows XP, I changed the localecho field by setting it to ON, but after I quit telnet and make a connection in the command line, the localecho field is set again to OFF. Anyone know how to handle ...
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equivalent “echo on” for linux?

How can I get to stdout all commands that run in bash script? That is output must contain commands output AND commands themselves. I found #!/bin/bash -x but this is not exactly the same because ...
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Can a string be inserted at a specific line in a file from the CLI?

The file has the content: [Greet] Hello Hi Hola I want to add a string called Hey so that its position is after Hello: [Greet] Hello Hey Hi Hola Is there a way to do the above by using echo or ...
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Shell script echo new line to file

I want to echo a new line to a file in between variables in a shell script. Here's my code: var1="Hello" var2="World!" logwrite="$var1 [Here's where I want to insert a new line] $var2 echo ...
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In a for loop, how do I echo only the current file on a single(updating) line instead of EVERY file which will produce a list?

My first question on this stackexchange, and I am sure there will be more as I venture farther into the world of what is Linux... I have a for-loop in a shell-script that batch renames all files to a ...
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how to escape pipe symbol | in bat scripts?

I need to echo commad usage like this in batch script named command.bat command.bat on|off I cant use echo %0 on|off I know I can use echo "%0 on|off" but it puts quotes along Is there any ...
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.bashrc reports unexpected EOF

I am trying to add some functions to my bashrc, namely: h () { history | fgrep $1 | sort -u | cut -b 8- } extract () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; ...
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On a Linux shell, what is echo $1 supposed to do?

I do a echo $1, it prints out what is the default login shell used. But for echo $2 onwards, all I get is a newline. Why is that?