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Re: adding text to beginning of a file

shimi
Wed, 18 May 2005 10:07:45 -0700

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:13 +0300, Aaron wrote:
> Hi again,
> thanks for the help, all the methods seem to work for a single file.
> 
> how would I iterate this for a whole directory?
> Thanks
> Aaron
> 

for i in /path/to/dir/*; do cat header $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i; done

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