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Old 02-18-2009
ddreggors ddreggors is offline
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try this:
Code:
sed 1'i\HeaderText' ExtractDataFile.txt
If this outputs to the screen as expected (this does not update the file) then the inner 'i' (insert command) is working fine.

Next try:

Code:
sed -i 1'i\HeaderText' ExtractDataFile.txt
If either gives an error then you may have to upgrade sed to get the use of the 'inline' flag (-i) or the insert command ('i\text') to be able to do this without writing to another file first and specifying a line number.