Re: [MLUG] prepending a file

[Matt Klaric <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Use a little shell script like this.....it takes input from standard in
and expects a filename as an argument.  It just masks the nastiness of
creating a temp file by doing it automagically. 

#!/bin/sh

TMP=`tempfile`

while read line; do
    echo $line >> $TMP
done

cat $1 >> $TMP
mv $TMP $1

--matt

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:27, Brent Deterding wrote:
> 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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