cat problem ???

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:15 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> hi all
> 
> i want to create scripts from the command line using cat... but...
> 
> dimitri at programming:~/SCRIPTS$ cat penguin.sh
> cat: penguin.sh: No such file or directory
> 
> in all the example tutorials i have looked at cat is supposed to
> create the file for you if it does not exist :( 
> i have to use gedit each time, which is nice because it has syntax
> highlighting :)
> 
> I'd just like to know why cat doesn't create a file if it doesn't
> exist 
> 
> ( i have looked at man cat & info cat, but i couldn't find my solution
> there) 
> 
> any thoughts?
> thanks
cat > filename  will create a new file
cat >> filename will append to an existing file
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