[CLUG] Append/prepend to stdin

[Donncha O Caoimh]

The way I do it is by enclosing everything in brackets:
(echo Subject: test email; cat $FILE ; cat end.txt )| sendmail $USER

Donncha.


On Monday 12 August 2002 10:42, adam wrote:
> Silly question prolly, but how do I append or prepend to something coming
> from a pipe? Say I had:
>
> [user at host bin]$ cat $FILE | sendmail $USER
>
> ... but I wanted to bung a line at the start or the end of the stuff coming
> from cat?
>
> adam