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Why  this would not work:
<loadfile srcfile="a.txt" property="content-a"/>
<loadfile srcfile="b.txt" property="content-b"/>
<echo file="b.txt" message="${content-a}${content-b}"/>

The only problem I see is that each time b.txt will be updated. It is 
better not to update files in place or have a valid condition to avoid 
repetitive updates (maybe using <touch file="timestamp" with 
<if><not><uptodate>).

- Alexey.

Ivan Ivanov wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I want to do something relative simple: I have two
>text files say a.txt and b.txt and I want to place the
>contents of a.txt in the beginning of b.txt. I thought
>I could use <echo> task, but now I see it won't do
>this.
>
>Can you give me any advice?
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>Ivan
>
>  
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