Prepend Text To A File In Lua
This is what I'm using to prepend text to a file from a Neovim Telescope extension.
prepend_file = function(file_path, line)
local tmp_path = file_path .. ".tmp"
local file = io.open(file_path, 'r')
local tmp = io.open(tmp_path, 'a')
tmp:write(line .. "\n")
for line in file:lines() do
tmp:write(line)
tmp:write("\n")
end
file:close()
tmp:close()
os.remove(file_path)
os.rename(tmp_path, file_path)
end
prepend_file(
"path/to/file.txt",
"this is a new line"
)
- This doesn't have any error checking in it. Could definitely use that.
~ fin ~