usage of sed

[Ralf Buchhold]

Hello
can I insert a text before each linefeed
in a textfile ?
Which is the correct command ?
Thanks
Ralf

[Pete Randall]

Ralf,

I think something like this should do it:

sed 's/$/your_text$/'

You may have to experiment a bit with it.


Pete

[Muthukumar_5]

We can use sed / awk / command line script too for this.

sed:

sed "s/$//"

awk:

awk '{ print $0"" }'

perl:

perl -pe 's/$//'

commandline:

while read line; do

echo $line

done < inputfile > outputfile

HTH.

[harry d brown jr]

Pete,

Shame on you!

DO NOT PUT THE last $ in your sed string

sed 's/$/your_text/'

otherwise a $ will be in your output (ouch)

Pete, go have some more coffee :-))))))))


live free or die
harry

[Pete Randall]

Thanks, Harry - coffeeing now.

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Ralf,
Go thr' this link:
http://www.hk8.org/old_web/unix/sedawk/index.htm
That should help u experiment. :)
Regards,

[Geoff Wild]

Here's a handy page - Sed One liners:

http://www.unixguide.net/unix/sedoneliner.shtml

Rgds...Geoff