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I'm using cat to append some results in a file but the file its empty after the execution

start="$(date +'%s%3N')"
sleep 1
echo $par 
end="$(date +'%s%3N')"

duration=$(($end-$start))
cat  "$par $duration" >> result.dat
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echo "$par $duration" >> result.dat

You use cat which will echo the content of the file with the name formed by "$par $duration". This will most likely not exist, so that you end up appending nothing to result.dat.

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