"Inserting" a line in a text file?
Gustavo Cordova
gcordova at hebmex.com
Tue May 7 16:44:19 EDT 2002
>
> rename tgtfile tempfile # very fast
> cat 'new single line' > tgtfile # very fast
> cat tempfile >> tgtfile # the slow step
> del tempfile # very fast
>
> Raymond Hettinger
>
Another way would be:
$ echo "single line stuff" > endfile.txt
$ mysqldump xxx xxx xxx >> endfile.txt
no need to be renaming and stuff.
>From python it's about the same.
-gustavo
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