Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Keir Whitlock <keir.whitlock@???> [2007-12-20 09:01]:
>
>> Hi,
>> A quick one for you, echo "hi" >> /tmp/file will append hi to the
>> end of file, but how do I prepend it to the top of the file?
>>
> ** end quote [Keir Whitlock]
>
> How's about:
>
> sed -i.bak '1 s/^/Hi\n/' file.txt
>
> I'm far from being an expert, but sed and awk are mighty powerful tools
> if you can get to grips with them, this is just scratching the surface
> of one of them!
>
awk version:
mv file.txt file.txt.bak ; awk 'BEGIN{print "Hi"}{print}'
file.txt.bak > file.txt
Simon
