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How do I add text to the beginning of a file in Bash?

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Hi I want to prepend text to a file. For example I want to add tasks to the beginning of a todo.txt file. I am aware of but that adds the line to the end of the file (not what I want).

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echo 'task goes here' >> todo.txt

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