Re: [tlug] Adding text to the beginning of a file

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Thank you for the code and the link. I'm afraid that the tutorial left 
> my head spinning a bit. I'm just learning bash shell syntax, and sed 
> seems to have a whole new layer of options. I hope it's okay if I ask 
> some more questions.

Learning sed is very worthwhile, at least to a level of familarity (as 
opposed to knowning it detail). You might not use it a lot but the jobs 
that it is good at will save you a lot of work and you can brush up on 
it when you need to use it. Certainly having a reasonable understanding 
of regular expressions is very useful. I recently updated 400 or so html 
files, removing the server name from URL links - the whole task took a 
few minutes.

Brett