appending variables in a shell script to a file

[keto]

I'm relatively new to shell scrpting and I want to know how you can read from the stdin interactively from a script and then append that variable to an existing file. Please can anyone help?

 

[MikeLacey]

#!/bin/ksh

read a # get a line of something from stdin
print $a >> a_file.txt # append that to a file
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[patel]

Hi keto,
If it is csh script then
set TAPENO = $<
echo &quot;$TAPENO&quot; >> test.txt

Patel