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Old 09-26-2008
Prepend content of a file to another file
How can i prepend the content of a file to another file? I tried:
sed '1r textfile' myfile
but it inserted the text AFTER the first line? What would be a good method?

I can easily append lines to a file using the ">>" operator, is the something similar in bash to prepend lines?

Kind regards

Chris
# 2  
Old 09-26-2008
From: Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial
You can insert a new line before the pattern with the "i" command:

Code:
sed '
/WORD/ i\
Add this line before every line with WORD
' file

# 3  
Old 09-26-2008
To prepend f2 with the contents of f1 you can simply do something like:

Code:
cat f1 f2 > f2.tmp && mv f2.tmp f2

Regards
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