It is easy to append some text to the end of another file:

$ cat foo >> bar

or even just portion of a file:

$ head -n 2 foo >> bar

but how about to the beginning of a file? Well, it is not that bad to do either:

$ echo "$(cat foo bar)" > bar

just a portion of a file:

$ echo "$(head -n 2 foo)\n$(cat bar)" > bar

Now you can easily add some text such as copyright information to the beginning of another file with one command.