print for file

[nightwish]

hi

How to print in the bigining of the output of a command the name of the machine ?? ..
The name is easy uname -s but i dont now how to put in the beginig of each line ..

regards ..

[Mel Burslan]

Your question is not clear. Could you please clarify with an example ?

what are you trying to print ?
where are you trying to print to ? terminal screen or printer ?

[Pete Randall]

Try something like this:

uname -s > file1
cat file2 >> file1
mv file1 file2


Pete

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
could you pleas clarify or give example.

For example:
To change the prompt:
export PS1=`uname -n`
To prefix all lines in a file:
sed "1,$ s/^/hostname /" file > file.new

[Pete Randall]

Actually, I would use hostname rather than uname -s.


Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Here is one approach capuring the outout of "ls -l /etc":

#!/usr/bin/sh

HOST=$(uname -n)
ls -l /etc | while read X
do
echo "${HOST}: ${X}"
done

[nightwish]

hi

I already solv my problem whit awk !!

Thanks

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
if you are happy with the replies, can you please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28
and give more info on your solution, so future users can learn.