How to prepend to a file (add at the top)

Question

Imagine you have a file

sink(\"example.txt\")
data.frame(a = runif(10), b = runif(10), c = runif(10))
sink()

and would want to add some hea

Answer 1

Using bash:

$ cat > license << EOF
> /* created on 31.3.2011 */
> /* author */
> /* other redundant information */
> EOF
$ sed -i '1i \\' example.txt
$ sed -i '1 {
>    r license
>    d }' example.txt

Don't know how to do it with one sed command (sed -i -e '1i \\' -e '1 { ... inserts after first line).