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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Appending to the first line of a document Post 302168161 by otheus on Sunday 17th of February 2008 11:18:01 AM
Old 02-17-2008
Sorry, but "no awk or sed" is obviously a homework assignment. I hate being a stickler for rules, but there's a rule on this board saying don't post such questions. It's for the sake of (a) your fellow students, and (b) others on here who are professionals and need this board for their work. Or something like that.

Having said that, what happens with the following code?

Code:
( cat file.txt; echo "Middle Line"; cat file.txt; ) >output.txt

 

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VM(1)								      mgetty								     VM(1)

NAME
vm - VoiceModem is the program for handling the voice modem functionality from shell scripts ACTIONS
beep options [<frequency [<length in 0.001sec>]]> diagnostics options device name (e.g. ttyS2 dial options phone number help play options [<file names]+> record options file name shell options [<shell script [shell options]]> wait options [<time in seconds]> devicetest OPTIONS
-c n use compression type n -d n set i/o device -t, -m, -i, -e, -s, -H equals to -d <2,3,4,5,6,7> -l s set device string (e.g. -l ttyS2:ttyC0) -v verbose output -w use off / on hook signal from local handset to start and stop recording -x n set debug level -L n set maximum recording length in sec -P print first DTMF tone on stdout and exit -R read and print DTMF string on stdout and exit -S s set default shell for shell scripts (e.g. -S /bin/sh) -T n set silence timeout in 0.1sec -V n set silence threshold to <n> (0-100%%) SEE ALSO
vgetty(1) POD ERRORS
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 30: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1' Around line 32: '=item' outside of any '=over' Around line 71: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1' perl v5.10.1 2010-04-04 VM(1)
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