using echo 'text' > file (to add to last line of several documents)

[Matt Graham]

From: Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net>
> I always take the later route, using scripts in favor of aliases. I 
> never really liked using aliases. I don't like changing the behavior of 
> commands that already exist, as that tends to break other things.

"Alias" is sort of a misnomer since you can create a new syntactic sugar-like
command instead of changing the behavior of an existing one.  I've had these
in my .bashrc for over 10 years now:

alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'

....and I don't believe you can write a script named ".." without a lot of
fooling around....

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