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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append (cat) to beginning of file ? Post 44671 by linuxpenguin on Tuesday 9th of December 2003 05:01:48 PM
Old 12-09-2003
I assume that before doing the following you already have the header, trailer and detail files

in that case

cat header detail trailer > newfile

I hope I havent much misunderstood the question Smilie
 

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Shelr records terminal output and can replay it. Also you can shere Your records at http://shelr.tv/ or other services. SYNOPSIS
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