Unix Tip #4264- October 14, 2012


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INSERT A LINE


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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