in reply to insert into beginning of file

Here's a method similar to using Tie::File, but dosn't require
a module. It dosn't delete....it overwrites :-)
#!/usr/bin/perl $file= $ARGV[0]; @file =(<>); unshift @file, "My newline headline\n"; open (FH,">$file")or die "Cant open: $!"; print FH @file; close FH;