concatenate files ?

Hi

I want to write a UNIX shell script to concatenate 2 files:
Assume that I have File1 and File2
My need is to concatenate in the head of File2 the content of File1 without erasing File2
The same thing that do tee –a but in the head of the file not in end , is it possible ?

Thanks for your Help !

your best unix friend is called 'man', so
man cat
will show you the manual pages of cat command
if you don't have man, google for 'unix man cat'

Hi,
with cat file1 file2 > file2
can i be sure that i dont lose changes made on file2 if the commande take time ?

Thanks

that will first zeroing file2

This is not correct. Read in some tutorial about expanding of the command line. The redirection is made before sending the command to the lower structures of Unix. Your command only deletes the file2 and then catinates file1 into file2. The only possibility is to use a temporary file and then rename it:

cat file1 file2 > file3
mv file3 file2

I have made the same error many years ago too...