how to "cat" text to the beginning of a file? 1

[ogniemi]

any easy/short/oneliner way?

thx,
r, m.

 

[PHV]

any easy/short/oneliner way?
to do what ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[dchoulette]

mv file file.orig && cat prefixfile file.orig > file

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Denis

 

[Ygor]

perl -pi -e '$.==1 && print "some text\n"' file1

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yes, and all the other solutions already mentioned in thread822-1123906 ( appending text to the top of a file ).

Feherke.

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