RE: [MLUG] prepending a file

["Brent Deterding" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yep - thought there might be a slicker way that moving it around to a temp
file that I didn't realize - thanks!

-- Brent

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A crude method:

In the loop:
	cat dest > tmp; cat source > dest; cat tmp >> dest;


Suman K

Suman Kanuganti
Control Engineer/Programmer
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
http://www.missouri.edu/~skhcf

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I want to add some text to the top of a file - how do I do it? 

Like >> but at the beginning, not the end

-- Brent
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