I have a request that is simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. I have a unix file that I want to append the following string to the front of the file
<esc>&l1O<esc>(0U<esc>(s0p16.66h8.5v0s0b0T
and an
<esc>E
to the end. I know that I could do something like
cat start_file report_file end_file > new_report_file
However, I can't figure out how to save the ESCAPE character in the start and end file. I feel silly asking this, but I have never had to do it before.