Is there a particular reason you are trying to create and edit a file 
without using and editor?

If you have a typo, or if there is something in the that your new entry 
might conflict with you may not know.

Doing this as a super user (root / sudo) seems to me to be asking for 
trouble.

Of course it depends on what you are trying to do.

If you are modifying configuration files in particular I see possibility 
of unrecoverable excitement.


The apache configuration file has a lot of the settings already in there 
and often you just need to uncomment them to activate the option. Of 
course you would be working on it only after making a backup copy of the 
file.

When you have finished creating a file from the command line you would 
use Control D to end the edit mode.

Typing eof will just put the characters eof into the file.

HM


On 03/09/2015 08:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> do you think this would have the desired effect?
>
>
> sudo cat >> /etc/apt/apt.conf  << eof
> Acquire::Queue-Mode "host";
> eof
>
> sudo cat >> /etc/sysctl.conf << eof
> #
> # Reduce the swap tendency
> vm.swappiness = 10
> eof
>
> sudo cat >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf << eof
> Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
> eof
>
> sudo cat >> /etc/fstab << eof
> /media/bmike1/entertainment/Pictures /home/bmike1/Pictures none bind 0 0
> eof
>
> would the single line appendages just need the blank line?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Okay now, I learned just today how >> works and I want to update
>     all of my reinstall scripts so all I need to do is copy-n-paste
>     into a terminal and everything will be done. Learned when I was
>     doing Linux from scratch  that to create a file of multiple lines
>     without starting an editor you do:
>
>     *cat > filename << "EOF"
>     *contents
>
>     *of*
>
>     *file*
>
>     *EOF*
>
>      Oh.... I think I get it. just turn the '>' into '>>'
>     am I correct?
>
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
>
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