Can perl be used to prepend to a file?

Stachu 'Dozzie' K. · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 250

On 2005-02-07, dave@geol.ucsb.eduWWW wrote:

dave@geol.ucsb.eduWWW · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

I just realized that it don't need perl and solved it simply with:

URL=http://myURL
(echo $URL; echo ""; lynx -dump -nolist $URL |cut -c3- ) > mytextfile

Quoting myself in a previous post:

dave@geol.ucsb.eduWWW · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

I often use:

perl -pi -e 's/old-re/new-re/' $file

but could it be used similarly to prepend a line to a textfile?
so that e.g. a file about to be generated with:

lynx -dump -nolist http://myURL |cut -c3- > mytextfile

gets the URL prepended to mytextfile?

Thanks.

Dave

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