insert headline in all files

[tonivm]

hi:
how could i add a headline that is into files to another files?
thanks in advance.

 

[Annihilannic]

Something like this, if I understand your requirement:

awk '
        FILENAME==ARGV[1] { headline=$0 ; next }
        FNR==1 {
                newfilename=FILENAME ".new"
                print headline >> newfilename
        }
        { print >> newfilename }
' headline file1 file2

This assumes that headline is a file containing only one line.

Annihilannic.