Unix command to prepend text to a file

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Is there a Unix command to prepend some string data to a text file?

Something like:

prepend "to be prepended" text.txt

Answer

shime picture shime · Jan 14, 2015 
printf '%s\n%s\n' "to be prepended" "$(cat text.txt)" >text.txt

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