Add text to beginning of file

#1 08-24-2007

Hi
I need to add text to the beginning of a file in the same way that cat will put file contents at the end of a file. I want to do this with many files eg
cat newtext >> /usr/home/*/*.bat

Any ideas?

zazzybob · #2 08-24-2007

Something like this

Code:

$ ls /usr/home/*/*.bat | while read file; do 
>   ( echo "add this"; cat ${file} ) > ${file}.new && mv ${file}.new ${file}
> done

ghostdog74 · #3 08-24-2007

Code:

sed -i  '1i add here' file*bat

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