Hi Monks,

I have a text file and I want to insert some text at the start of the file. The text file would look like something below. 
echo hello

echo world

echo I'm done.

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I have seen people do it in the manner... this is from the link -

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-74203.html

I was wondering if there is a Perl way of insert text at the start of the file without doing any renaming of the file.

Also, the awk / sed methods look nice, but I'm not sure what is the counterpart of that in Perl. 
# echo "" > temp
# cat yourfile >> temp
# mv temp yourfile

the awk way:
awk 'BEGIN{print "new text"}1' file

the sed way
sed -e '1i new line' file

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In reply to Elegant Way of Inserting Text at the Start of the File by bichonfrise74

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