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Old 09-22-2006
Computer insert text into top of file

how would you insert text into a existing file using aguments
first arguments being the line of text and the second argument being file name
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Old 09-22-2006
Code:
echo $1 > temp
cat $2 >> temp 
mv temp $2

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