Bash script write without overwrite? [closed]

Question

I want to test a crontab job by writing the date to a text file every minute as the following script shows:

#!/bin/bash
date >> /home/SomeUserName/Desktop/date.txt

This almost accomplishes what I want but I don't want my script to overwrite the file in each iteration. So I used >> instead of > because I thought that it would only append to the file. Although, every time crontab executes the script I can only see one date.

Why is that so happening?

I am using linux mint.

Answer 1

I can confirm that it should work as expected.

Created a script /home/myuser/xd.sh:

#!/bin/bash
date >> $HOME/date.txt

and a crontab (via crontab -e):

# m h  dom mon dow   command
  * *  *   *   *     /home/myuser/xd.sh

Then I see the expected result:

$ cat date.txt 
Sa 16. Jul 02:02:01 CEST 2016
Sa 16. Jul 02:03:01 CEST 2016
Sa 16. Jul 02:04:01 CEST 2016
Sa 16. Jul 02:05:01 CEST 2016
Sa 16. Jul 02:06:01 CEST 2016
Sa 16. Jul 02:07:01 CEST 2016