How to add one line in the beginning of the file?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi gurus,

I need add one new line in the begining of current file.

current file

 
abc
cde
add
xyz

output file

 
newline
abc
cde
add
xyz

thanks in advance.

2 
$ echo "newline" | cat - infile > outfile

$ cat <(echo "newline") infile >outfile

$ awk 'BEGIN{print "newline"}1' infile >outfile
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3 
sed '1i newline' infile
newline
abc
cde
add
xyz
4 
cat - file <<< newline
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5

Thanks for you reply.

when run the command, I got below error.
sed: command garbled: 1i newline

my server is SunOS 5.10 Generic_144488-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

6 
awk 'BEGIN { print "newline" } ; 1' inputfile > outputfile
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7

If you want to use sed , this should work:

sed '1i\
newline
' infile