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Originally posted by giannicello
Thanks for the suggestion so far. Turns out the file I'll be working with is a huge file with 1 mil rows that I need to add 20 more columns to the end of each row. The columns to be added are all the same info.
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Yikes! Your original post was talking about 100 to 1000 lines. If you want to add the same string of characters to each of 1 million lines in a file, don't use vi. Try this:
sed 's/$/<new string of stuff goes here>/' < input > output
