[olug] Unix Tip: INSERTING LINES WITHIN SCRIPTS

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			Unix Tip 2027 - July 20, 2003

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INSERTING LINES WITHIN SCRIPTS


If you want to insert a line 
at the top (or anywhere for 
that matter) of a file within 
a shell script, use the ed editor.

EXAMPLE:

string="hello"
ed << EOF
e any_file
1i
${string}


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