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mar74

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On a SCO Unixware box, scripts are overwritting logfiles instead of appending to them. Even if I do:

echo `date` > test
echo foo >> test

test only contains foo.

I appreciate any help/insight anyone can provide.
 
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Try echo foo >> test 2>&1

It should work if not try a man on redirection
 
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