Shell script to append text to each file?

Question

I have a folder full of text files. I need to append the same block of text to each of them (and of course overwrite the original file).

I was wondering what the co

Answer 1

If you're needing to do this via a script, you can use echo and append redirection to get the extra text into the files.

FILES=pathto/*
for f in $FILES ; do
    echo "#extra text" >> $f
done