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Old 03-14-2007
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Originally Posted by enuenu
Thanks what you say is correct but is not quite what I was after. Thanks for trying to help me. I wanted to for example show the output of the command date at the top of the file, followed by the the output of the command ls in the same file.

it would work,

Code:
(date ; ls ) > newfile

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Old 03-14-2007
Yes matrixmadhan, we posted almost simultaneously and my reply saying it was not quite what I was after was not a response to your first post. I have edited that response to ensure the thread make sense. You solved my problem first go, thanks.
 
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