Add a prefix string to beginning of each line
# If you want to edit the file in-place sed -i -e ‘s/^/prefix/’ file # If you want to create a new file sed -e ‘s/^/prefix/’ file > file.new If prefix contains /, you can use any other character not in prefix, or escape the /, so the sed command becomes ‘s#^#/opt/workdir#’ # or ‘s/^/\/opt\/workdir/’