如何在bash脚本中将包含“ <>”的一个文件附加到另一个文件

Question

Is there a way to append one file to another in a bash script without it complaining about the < > characters? I'm trying to append a file that contains some xml to another but it keeps throwing a

syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'

'<myTag>'

The operation is simply myFile.txt >> otherFile.xml

I know they're placeholder characters but I haven't been able to turn up any results on making them get interpreted as literals

Answer 1

You need to use cat :

cat myfile.txt >>otherFile.xml

Otherwise, you're trying to run myfile.txt as an executable; the problem has nothing to do with the arrow-bracket characters embedded within the file's contents.

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By the way -- XML documents can only legally contain a single root, and are not allowed to have content outside of that root, so your new file probably isn't valid XML.