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RE: Re: Writing to filesby chromatic (Archbishop) |
| on Apr 10, 2000 at 21:01 UTC ( [id://7246]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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I had better luck with this:
perl -i -p -e 'print "first line\n" if $. == 1;' data
It depends on the particular magic of $., of course.
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