How to add content of one file into another file at the beginning
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Answer / tejaswa
Hi Durgesh, by this command you can add the content at the end of file2 not in the beginning.
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Answer / pritam sahu
cat fil2 file1>>file3 then rename the file3 as file2 by mv
file3 file2.
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Answer / dick
concatenate file1 and file2, in the below command file1 content will be insert in front of that in file2, and then combined content will be redirected to file3
cat file1 file2 > file3
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Answer / preet mala
If we want to add content of file1 at the beginning of file2
then use the following command:-
cat file2 file1 >> file3 | mv file3 file2;
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Answer / rakesh kumar ray
cat > file1
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kumar
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cntrl + d
cat > file2
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cntrl +d
cat < file1 > file2
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Answer / green
(To insert file2 content to file1; then the command is)
vi file1
(in command mode)
:0 r! cat file2 (press enter)
( file2 content is inserted to file1 )
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Answer / ahmed
Use sed command
sed -i'' '1 i this is firts line' temp123
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Answer / abhishek bhardwaj
If one wants to add content of file1 on top of file2 then
cat file2 >> file1
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