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sed in OS X add newline at beginning of file
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sed-osx-newline-beginning.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
header="col1,col2,col3"
cat << EOF > raw.csv
4,1,5
3,1,4
6,8,11
EOF
lf=$'\n'; sed -i.bak "1s;^;$header\\$lf;" raw.csv
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