Placing text before command output

[Jeffrey S. Bromley]

Does anyone know how to place text before the output of a command? Basically, what I am trying to do is run a 'bdf', and then format the output like:

Server Name: /dev/vg00/lvol1 kbytes used avail

[Mark van Hassel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

bdf | while read line
do
echo "`hostname` : $line"
done

[Rodney Hills]

sed probabily would work the best

bdf | sed -e 's/^/server:/' >resultfile.txt

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Jeffrey:

Depending on what you want to do the number od methods is legion.

1) echo "Server Name: \c"
bdf

2) HNAME=`hostname`
bdf | awk -v host=${HNAME} '{print "Server Name: ",host," ",$0}'

3) You could use paste to combine two files

Just a few, Clay

[Jeffrey S. Bromley]

Thanks for all the prompt replies. It is really appreciated