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Hello,

I'm attempting to play with sed commands again...

I have a file named test1 with numbers...ex:5551234567

I run this sed on the file...

Code:

cat test1 | sed 's/^/homeDnModify "/g' | sed 's/$/" "" 3/g' >test2

Im hoping it will look like this...

Code:

homeDnModify "551235" "4567" "" 3

However, its missing the splits...

Code:

homeDnModify "5551234567" "" 3

Is there any simple way to make that split? Thank you.

Hi jay11789,

Could you please let us know the exact input and expected output file.


Thanks,
R. Singh

Actually, I just figured it out! Thanks for the reply anyway!

You show us a sed command that doesn't work, and output that you say you want. You say you have solved your problem, but haven't shown us the input or your corrected sed command. That makes this thread pretty useless to anyone trying to learn from your experience.

Please help us learn! Show us the input you were trying to process and the sed command that did what you wanted.

Of course.....

Here is what I finally came up with, its a bit long, but the results were what I was looking for....

Code:

cat test1 | sed 's/[[^\t]*/" "&/7' | sed 's/^/homeDnModify "/g' | sed 's/$/" "" 3/g' > test2

This basically took the list of numbers, and made them into a nice neat command file like this...

Code:

homeDnModify "561234" "1000" "" 3

There is not need for additional pipes for sed commands or initial cat.

Code:

sed -e 's/[[^\t]*/" "&/7' -e 's/^/homeDnModify "/g' -e 's/$/" "" 3/g' test1

Should yield same results.