[SunHELP] insert one line at beginning of text file; efficien tly

[Dale Ghent]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 03:39 PM, Markham, Richard wrote:

> Dale if you dont mind if I wanted to pass paramers ($1 $2 .....) to 
> theis
> perl
> command how can I get it to go through without PERL trying to process 
> the
> variable.  Appears the shell never gets to replace the variable value.

Use this perl script instead. Cut and past it into a file, make it 
executable, and run it like so: ./foo inputfile argument > outputfile

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "$ARGV[1]\n";
open FILE, $ARGV[0];
while(<FILE>){print;}

/ek
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