Comments on: New command: prepend

By: prepend to a file with sponge from moreutils

prepend to a file with sponge from moreutils — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:37:41 +0000

[...] few weeks I wrote about a tool, which helps you easily prepend to a file. I submitted prepend to moreutils and Joey was kind enough to point out this could be done with [...]

By: using kill to see if a process is alive

using kill to see if a process is alive — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:44:00 +0000

[...] moreutils sponge command. Sponge provides a method of prepending which is less specialized than my prepend util. However, it has trouble with large amounts of [...]

By: Brock Noland

Brock Noland — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:42:57 +0000

Echo is a special case, most often I am prepend’ing files. However, if sed can prepend stdin, then that would be an effective replacement. I’ll look into that.

By: i5513

i5513 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:51 +0000

Why not using sed ’1i\
TEXT’ at the last command on the pipe ?