Insert a blank line at the start of a text file

I'd like to insert a blank line at the start of a text file.
I presume SED would be the best to use? Any help on code would be greatly appreciated?

Hi David,
   That is a little more difficult in sed and awk than it seems like it should be. I'll assume that you know how to handle the redirection and I'll just post the actual sed and awk commands. If you're comfortable with multiline statements in sed it could be done with the following:
sed '1s/./\
Programmatically more complicated but easier to type would be:
sed '1{x;p;g;}'
   I think that it's conceptually simpler in awk using the BEGIN address like so:
awk 'BEGIN{ print }//'
   You'll probably get other responses using other tools. I'm certainly curious to see what develops.
Gary
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