shell command for opening file and add content at the end

[Jan Erik Moström]

Hi all,

I'm trying to automate a few things and I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to, in one command, open and/or create a specific file and add some text at the end.

I don't know if I'm missing something, but I can't figure out how to do it.

With "bbedit -c filename" I can create the file

With "bbedit --append" I can pipe some data to bbedit that will appended to the active document (so I would need to open it first)

Is there some way to do this in one operation or do I need two operations?

= jem

[Patrick Woolsey]

Good afternoon and please pardon the obvious :-) but is there any reason not to just create a script which compounds the desired commands and run that within BBEdit?

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#!/bin/sh

bbedit -c ~/Desktop/only_one.txt

echo "Nullam.txt" | bbedit --append
========

Regards,

-- Patrick

["Jan Erik Moström"]

On 9 Oct 2024, at 23:00, Patrick Woolsey wrote:

> Good afternoon and please pardon the obvious :-) but is there any reason not to just create a script which compounds the desired commands and run that within BBEdit?
>
> ========
> #!/bin/sh
>
> bbedit -c ~/Desktop/only_one.txt
>
> echo "Nullam.txt" | bbedit --append
> ========

Only that I hope to later do some scripts that would involve some slightly more complex stuff, and I'm more comfortable using Python than sh (there are a few more things I want to do before getting BBEdit to do it's thing). While sh and I were friends, the keywords are "were" and the missing "close", I'm pretty much a complete newbie at this time.

It's also bin (sigh, I'm trying to learn German) a while since I used subprocesses in Python so I was trying to brush up on that part as well, and this script seemed to be a simple start.

But you're completely right, for this very simple script this would work just fine.

= jem

[History Stamp]

basically, create a python file.  invoke the python  app. here are some examples 

https://www.google.com/search?q=run+pythonrom+sh&oq=run+pythonrom+sh&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i13i512l4j0i13i30l4j0i8i13i30.34303j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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