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Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line

Subject: Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line
From: lemmuh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (David Hummel)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:13:56 -0500
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References: <4B491902.9000203@the-leveys.us>

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Don Levey <lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> apparently, I been to prepend the "." to each line.

As usual, there are several ways to do this ... here is one:

$ sed 's/^/\./' file

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- Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line
  - From: lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)

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