[ILUG] Re: sed question

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:15:59 -0400
  | From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan at zen.org>
  | 
  | >[ ... ] Does anyone know a one-liner sed/awk/perl
  | > to add a blank line to the start of a file?

sed -i '1i\
' FILE

does it in-place (‘-i’) fo <FILE> (GNU sed(1) only).
cheers!
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