Re: Better way to add one line at top of every file(one liner)

On 5/19/06, Luke Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/19/06, David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ankur, > On 5/18/06, Ankur Gupta wrote: > > perl -0777 -p -i -e 'print "abcdefgh\n"' *.ext > > or > > perl -0777 -p -i -e 's#^#abcdefgh\n#' *.ext > > or > > ??? > I did this: > perl -p -i

Re: Better way to add one line at top of every file(one liner)

On 5/19/06, David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ankur, On 5/18/06, Ankur Gupta wrote: > perl -0777 -p -i -e 'print "abcdefgh\n"' *.ext > or > perl -0777 -p -i -e 's#^#abcdefgh\n#' *.ext > or > ??? I did this: perl -p -i -e '$_ = ($ARGV ne $f && $f = $ARGV) ? "NEW FIRST LINE\n$_" : $_' *.e

Re: Better way to add one line at top of every file(one liner)

Hi Ankur, On 5/18/06, Ankur Gupta wrote: perl -0777 -p -i -e 'print "abcdefgh\n"' *.ext or perl -0777 -p -i -e 's#^#abcdefgh\n#' *.ext or ??? I did this: perl -p -i -e '$_ = ($ARGV ne $f && $f = $ARGV) ? "NEW FIRST LINE\n$_" : $_' *.ext I needed to check if I'm on the first line of a file and

Better way to add one line at top of every file(one liner)

perl -0777 -p -i -e 'print "abcdefgh\n"' *.ext or perl -0777 -p -i -e 's#^#abcdefgh\n#' *.ext or ??? --Ankur -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]