Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

[Brock Noland]

> > >  { echo header; cat file; } > file1 && mv file1 file
> > Yes, that's is effectively how I do it when I don't have the script

>  In addition to the above if I restrict myself to programs that already
>  know how to edit files in place I can think of a few additional easy
>  ways.  Sed of course comes to mind.  Here is one way to use sed to
>  edit a file in place and insert "foo" at the first line of the file.

I forgot to mention that often I want to prepend an entire file.

Respectfully,
Brock