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Linux Bash: Append and Prepend Strings to Files



I want to append the string “BYE” to the file test.txt

echo “BYE” >> test.txt

Now, I want to prepend the string “HI” to the file test.txt

echo “HI”|cat - test.txt > /tmp/out && mv /tmp/out test.txt

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