updating a File

[Afan Shah]

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Hi,

Could anyone please tell me how can I write to a file which already contains some data without erasing any previous data?

Afan.


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>>>>> "A" == Afan Shah <afan_shah@yahoo.com> writes:

A> Could anyone please tell me how can I write to a file which already
A> contains some data without erasing any previous data?

open it with "a", for example

svg% cat aa
a
svg%

svg% ruby -e 'File.open("aa", "a") {|f| f.puts "b"}'
svg%

svg% cat aa
a
b
svg%



Guy Decoux