From: Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T06:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-esque approaches to adding a line at the beginning of a file.


On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:

> t = "New first line of file.\n"
> t = t + open("sample_file") { |f| f.read }
> open("sample_file", "w") { |f| f.write(t)}
>
> However, it doesn't appear (to me) to be very Ruby-esque--I'm  
> wondering how
> others on this list might approach such a task.

I think it's as good as anything.  You could scrunch it up a bit like  
this:

     t = "New First Line\n" + File.read("sample_file")
     ...

--Steve