From: jgqued@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, 25 June 2018 17:51:38 UTC+1, Zaidy036  wrote:   
   > On 6/25/2018 11:57 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   > > I've done this since DOS 3.0 and always had trouble remembering the   
   > > syntax.  Now the syntax is different of course.   
   > >   
   > > None of the syntaxes google finds actually work.   
   > >   
   > > I want to add a text file to the end of a log file.  And it has to work   
   > > if the log file doesn't exist yet.   
   > >   
   > > Thank you.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > SET "_RPT=F:\Overnight.log"   
   > ECHO something > %_RPT%       start a new _RPT   
   > ECHO something >> %_RPT%     add to existing _RPT or start a new one if   
   > not exst   
   >   
   > --   
   > Zaidy036   
      
   For actual files, one way which works...   
      
   if exist logfile.txt (   
     copy logfile.txt+addedtext.txt logfile.txt   
     ) else (   
     rename addedtext.txt logfile.txt   
     rem or use copy instead of rename   
   )   
      
   Worth 'checking out' all the switches in COPY, in case any are of interest.   
      
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