On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:36:08PM -0800, Troy May wrote: > How do you write to the beginning of a file?
That's an easy one: Just turn the file around, and append to its end. # cat > regular first second third ^D # mkfifo backwards # while : ; do tac regular > backwards; done & [1] 18464 # cat backwards third second first # echo fourth >> regular # cat backwards fourth third second first # _ Now you can easily replace the last two steps with perl. You append to the "regular" file and read from the "backwards" one. -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jfranken.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
