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  • 21-08-2007 08:52PM
    #1
    magnia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭


    Ok so i had to create a file and put some random text into it which i did.

    THen u make a script which takes 2 arguments.

    The first being a line of text, the second being your newly created file.

    Can I just use a read the first line in using echo?

    The script should take the first argument and insert it into the very top (the first line) of the file named in your second argument.

    How do I do the second bit, it keeps putting the first argument at the bottom of the file.


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  • #2
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,862 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Homework?


  • #3
    magnia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭magnia


    have to learn unix for a job im applying for


  • #4
    magnia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭magnia


    ive got this so far

    BUFF=$(cat $2) echo $1 >> $2 echo " $BUFF" >> $2

    but im getting the wrong output

    "Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children.


    unixisbrillant echo"

    i need to get the lastline at the top


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