How to append filepro generated text to the first line of a filepro generated file.

[Jose Lerebours]

On 5/1/20 1:51 PM, oldtony via Filepro-list wrote:
> The file generation is on Linux.  P is a windows share folder. Also 
> using the GREAT ANZIO Printwizard.
>
> filepro generates a file for me (a text file of a printout). file is 
> P:\files\prt\wolfprt
>
> filepro generates this string for me:     !PDF 
> /fP:\files\prt\wolfprt.pdf /email="tony at ynotsoftware.com /j"this is a 
> test"
>
> When i manually edit the file P:\files\prt\wolfprt  and put this 
> string as the first line of the file P:\files\prt\wolfprt i get the 
> desired results. That is, when i copy the edited file to Print Wizard 
> despool directory a email is sent to me with the report is attached as 
> a PDF file.
>
> the string filepro generates has lots of special characters. which has 
> caused issues for me
>
> i want to do a system call using something like AWK or sed to add this 
> string as the first line of the file p:\files\prt\wolfprt.
>
> I am hoping one of you experts will help
>
I wonder if a simply shell command such as

echo '!PDF /fP:\files\prt\wolfprt.pdf /email="tony at ynotsoftware.com 
/j"this is a test"' `cat p:\files\prt\wolfprt` > p:\files\prt\wolfprt

could get the job done!?!