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Tip #224   Add header/footer to command output

If you want to surround the output of a command by a header or a footer try the following: 

$ command | cat headerFile - footerFile


For example 
$ ls *txt | cat header - footer
Here is a list of files:
1.txt
2.txt
End of file list

 
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