Bounding an exponential integral

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I'm having trouble seeing this bound I've seen on a proof.

Let $f$ be a polynomial, and $F$ the polynomial obtained from $f$ by replacing each coefficient by its absolute value. Then:

$$\bigg{|}\int_0^t e^{t-u}f(u)du\bigg{|}\leq |t|e^{|t|}F(|t|)$$

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$u \mapsto e^{t-u}$ is decrasing, so :

$$\bigg{|}\int_0^t e^{t-u}f(u)du\bigg{|}\leq \int_0^t |e^{t-u}||f(u)|du \leq e^{|t|}\int_0^t F(|u|)du$$

But $F'(|u|) \ge 0$ because it is the derivative of a polynomial with positive coefficients (fill with details, you have to consider the cases $t>0$ and $t<0$), so $F(|u|)$ is increasing and so $\int_0^t F(|u|)du\leq tF(|t|).$

Finally : $\bigg{|}\int_0^t e^{t-u}f(u)du\bigg{|}\leq |t|e^{|t|}F(|t|)$