answer to sed and appending

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1 total messages Started by utzoodecvaxharpoihnp4ihldtll1otu... Mon, 14 Feb 1983 15:35

Author: utzoodecvaxharpoihnp4ihldtll1otu...
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1983 15:35

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Seems sed is a bit picky.
For one thing, you must use single quotes not double quotes;
secondly, it seems to ignore
sed '0a\
text'

but loves,

sed '1i\
text'

Such is UNIX.

Larry S. Kaufman
 Western Electric
 Network Software Center
 Lisle
 Illinois

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