# prepend This command prepends the given row to the front of the table **Note**: - `prepend` does not change a file itself. If you want to save your changes, you need to run the `save` command - if you want to add something containing a whitespace character, you need to put it in quotation marks ## Examples Let's complete this table with the missing continents: ```shell > open continents.txt | lines ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ ───┼─────────────── 0 │ Africa 1 │ South America 2 │ Australia 3 │ Europe 4 │ Antarctica ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` You can add a new row at the top by using `prepend`: ```shell > open continents.txt | lines | prepend Asia ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ ───┼─────────────── 0 │ Asia 1 │ Africa 2 │ South America 3 │ Australia 4 │ Europe 5 │ Antarctica ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ``` It's not possible to add multiple rows at once, so you'll need to call `prepend` multiple times: ```shell > open continents.txt | lines | prepend Asia | prepend "North America" ━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # │ ───┼─────────────── 0 │ North America 1 │ Asia 2 │ Africa 3 │ South America 4 │ Australia 5 │ Europe 6 │ Antarctica ━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ```