prepend with shell scripting?

[sde]

is it possible to prepend a file with text in a shell script? the text could be in some other file too.

i may be answering my own question ..

$ cat > prepend_text.txt > into_file.php > new_file.php

[kaeli69]

As far as I know (unix ksh), you have to make a temp file, put the prepend contents in it, append the content of the old file to it, then write the temp file to the old file.

$ cat prependText > tmpFile
$ cat oldFile >> tmpFile
$ cat tmpFile > oldFile

Or however short you can make that if you play with it...

[Kernel_Killer]

Here's a script I wrote awhile ago, that does some prepending that might be useful to you later. It allows you to add text to a file with a newline after each entry. Ignore the dialog part of it, since it really doesn't have too much to do with it.

#!/bin/sh
DIALOGRC new
dialog --clear
while : [ $menuitem =! 10]
do
dialog --title "ListMuze v0.1.01" --menu "Choose Option" 10 40 4 1 "Add Music" 2 "View List" 3 "Edit List" 10 "Quit" 2>m
enuitem.$$

menuitem=`cat menuitem.$$`
n="\n"
case $menuitem in
   1) dialog --inputbox "Title/Artist" 8 100 2>music.$$ && fmt -w 100 music.$$ >> musiclist;;
   2) dialog --textbox musiclist 25 100;;
   3) vi musiclist;;
   10) `rm -f *.$$`
       exit;;     
   255) echo "exit esc";;
esac
done

[sde]

thanks, i'm all set =)