topic Re: sed question in Operating System - Linux

sed question

Sharvil Desai — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:12:19 GMT

Hi!
I have a text file and I want to add the word "SUM(" in the begining of every line. Can you please tell me how to accomplish this?

when I try the following command,
sed 's/^/^SUM(/g' view.txt

I keep getting the following error,
sed: no remembered regular expressionThank you!

Re: sed question

benoit Bruckert — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:22:09 GMT

Can you try this :
sed 's/^/SUM(/g' view.txt
TO see if it's better ??
It works for me...

regards
Benoit

Re: sed question

Sharvil Desai — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 16:37:33 GMT

Actually, I too had tried that before and it didn't work. However, I think the problem is that I am using sed from WINNT through MKS toolkit. I tried that command on HP-UX and it worked fine....but thanx for confirming my doubt.