Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
- Subject: Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:33:41 +0100
Gnarlodious wrote:
How would I prepend a variable string to a file then append a variable
string to the same file?
The closest I can get is
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of startHTML & " " & htmlFilePOSIX & "
" & quoted form of endHTML & ">" & iPathPOSIX
But in this case the path of htmlFile is written instead of the file's text.
Maybe a variation of "cat" will work here, or piped commands.
Not sure, but it seems you are looking for something like this in the shell:
echo '<sometag>' >iPath; cat htmlFile >>iPath; echo '</sometag>' >>iPath
HTH,
Axel
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