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Old 02-09-2009
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you mean on a file that's already there???

if the file in question isn't so huge it crashes vi, try this:

Code:

vi file << EOF
OWhatever you want as first line
^[:wq!
EOF
Where the ^[ is actually the ESCAPE character entered ( through vi ) with
CONTROL-V and ESC.