Writing a text to many files

#moveon · #1 (**permalink**) 06-17-2009

Is there a command in shell-script that I can use that copies a string or writes it to many files? Say I have files a, b and c and I want to copy or write the text "Hallo, I am a newbie!" to all these files? I know I can do echo "Hallo, I am a newbie!" > a but this only copies it to one file. How can I do it to copy to all without repeating this command again and again.

Thanks in advance.

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-17-2009

'man tee'

Code:

echo 'Hallo, I am a newbie!' | tee a b c > /dev/null

#moveon · #3 (**permalink**) 06-17-2009

Thanks!

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