Help with pipes

[davegerdt]

I'm trying to combine several statements and am having trouble. I've been away from the Linux world for a while, so I'm a little rusty. Here's the deal:

I have a script that is called like:

scriptname inputfile1 inputfile2

Normally, that script is called and the output sent to a temporary file or to the printer like:

scriptname inputfile1 inputfile2 > tempfile

or

scriptname inputfile1 inputfile2 | lp -d queuename

What I want to do is prepend some text to the output of the script so that what gets sent to the file/printer will look like:

mytextscriptoutput

The catch is that I want to do this a) with a single command line statement and b) without any temporary files or extra scripts. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[likwid]

Yea, I have to do this when users need a large amount of documents printed with the filename at the top. I do something like this

for filename in *; do 
  (echo $filename ; cat $filename) | lpr -P printer
done

So you want to do i think would be a little different, like:

(echo SOMETHING ; scriptname inputfile1 inputfile2) | lpr -P printer