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Old 09-07-2012
Bug add header in each file of folder
My files location

Dir=/pp/Output/Test/

I have 100 .txt files on above location.

I want add header "pt all" on each file.

Sample Text file

Code:
Hi
Kalol
Jt all
q

Output i want

Code:
lt all
Kalol
Jt all
q

# 2  
Old 09-07-2012
Code:
sed -i '1i pt all' *.txt

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# 3  
Old 09-07-2012
To Remove first header line

Code:
for i in /pp/Output/Test/*.txt
do
sed '1 c\pt all'  $i
done


To add Line before fist line is - Just replace c with i

Code:
for i in /pp/Output/Test/*.txt
do
sed '1 i\pt all'  $i
done

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