Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

[Bob Proulx]

Brock Noland wrote:
> >  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.

I had that one already covered.  :-)

> > Or to read a file "foofile" at the first line of the file.
> > 
> > ed -s bar <<EOF
> > 0r foofile
> > w
> > q
> > EOF

Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.

Bob