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# 1  
Old 06-25-2014
How to add one line in the beginning of the file?
Hi gurus,

I need add one new line in the begining of current file.

current file
Code:
 
abc
cde
add
xyz

output file

Code:
 
newline
abc
cde
add
xyz

thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 06-25-2014
Code:
$ echo "newline" | cat - infile > outfile

Code:
$ cat <(echo "newline") infile >outfile

Code:
$ awk 'BEGIN{print "newline"}1' infile >outfile

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# 3  
Old 06-25-2014
Code:
sed '1i newline' infile
newline
abc
cde
add
xyz

# 4  
Old 06-25-2014
Code:
cat - file <<< newline

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# 5  
Old 06-25-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Code:
sed '1i newline' infile
newline
abc
cde
add
xyz

Thanks for you reply.

when run the command, I got below error.
sed: command garbled: 1i newline

my server is SunOS 5.10 Generic_144488-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
# 6  
Old 06-25-2014
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { print "newline" } ; 1' inputfile > outputfile

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# 7  
Old 06-25-2014
If you want to use sed, this should work:
Code:
sed '1i\
newline
' infile

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