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Old 02-23-2010
Edit file contents
I have a file with a list of dates(calendar) business1-christmaseve and this needs to be edited as follows, so I get business2-christmaseve with 2 extra lines in it - one is the file name and the second is an "a".

from
Code:
[ server ]cat business1-christmaseve
12/24/2009 00:00
12/24/2010 00:00
12/24/2011 00:00
12/24/2012 00:00

to
Code:
[ server ]cat business2-christmaseve
business2-christmaseve
a
12/24/2009 00:00
12/24/2010 00:00
12/24/2011 00:00
12/24/2012 00:00

Thanks.
Stephan
Last edited by Scott; 02-23-2010 at 04:57 PM.. Reason: Code tags please...
Stephanica
# 2  
Old 02-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephanica
I have a file with a list of dates(calendar) business1-christmaseve and this needs to be edited as follows, so I get business2-christmaseve with 2 extra lines in it - one is the file name and the second is an "a".

from
[ server ]cat business1-christmaseve
12/24/2009 00:00
12/24/2010 00:00
12/24/2011 00:00
12/24/2012 00:00

to
[ server ]cat business2-christmaseve
business2-christmaseve
a
12/24/2009 00:00
12/24/2010 00:00
12/24/2011 00:00
12/24/2012 00:00

Thanks.
Stephan
Code:
cp business1-christmaseve business2-christmaseve
sed -i '1ia' business2-christmaseve
sed -i '1ibusiness2-christmaseve' business2-christmaseve

Last edited by Scott; 02-23-2010 at 04:57 PM.. Reason: Code tags please...
# 3  
Old 02-23-2010
Thank you, 3junior.
Sorry I forgot to mention the -i option will not work on Solaris 10
sed: illegal option -- i
Suggestions?
Stephanica
# 4  
Old 02-23-2010
Tools By brute force?
Code:
echo 'biz2-christmas' >biz2.txt ; echo 'a' >>biz2.txt ; cat biz.txt >>biz2.txt

# 5  
Old 02-23-2010
Code:
{ printf 'business2-christmaseve\na\n'; cat business1-christmaseve; } > business2-christmaseve

# 6  
Old 02-23-2010
Code:
exec > business2-christmaseve
echo business2-christmaseve
echo a
cat business1-christmaseve

# 7  
Old 02-24-2010
Thanks, guys. These solutions work for each file.
Can we get to make this run for a list of files like the one in the example?

#index file contains the list of calendars to be renamed and edited.
cat index
business1-christmas
business1-holidays
business1-independenceday
business1-labourday
business1-memorialday
business1-newyearsday
business1-presidentsday

Thanks for all responses.
Stephanica
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