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# 1  
Old 07-26-2009
add character to the end of each line in file

hi all
i have 32 lines in file. the length of each line is 82 , i want that in the end of each line , means in postion 83-84 to put two characters 0d(=\015), 0a(=\012)
i want that the 0d will be in postion 83
and the 0a will be in postion 84
in each line of the file

how shall i do it ?

thanks in advanced
# 2  
Old 07-26-2009
if you give a sample input file and desired output, you would get a quick response!!!
# 3  
Old 07-26-2009
0D=13 and 0A=10
Not as you mentioned. ***0d(=\015), 0a(=\012)***
Also they have to be in caps.

When you say you have 32 lines, that means you already have a 0A (or line feed) at the end of the lines.
Else it will be one big string.
What exactly do you need?
# 4  
Old 07-26-2009
Quote:
In Octal:
Carriage Return = 015
Line Feed = 012
If this is a text file and you want to change the unix line terminator (linefeed) into the MSDOS line terminator carriage-return/linefeed there are many ways of doing this.

e.g.

Code:
cat filename | awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n";ORS="\r\n"} {print $0}' > new_filename

Some unixes have utilities for this such as "unix2dos" and "dos2unix".

Depends what you want to do with the file.
# 5  
Old 07-26-2009
Ha.. how could I have missed that? I was thinking of only HEX. Thanks.
Try this:
Code:
sed 's/$/\r\n/' filename > new_filename

# 6  
Old 07-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by naamas03
...
i have 32 lines in file. the length of each line is 82 , i want that in the end of each line , means in postion 83-84 to put two characters 0d(=\015), 0a(=\012)
...
If your file was created in Unix/Linux or any of their variants, then it would have "\012" (or ASCII decimal 10 or "newline" character) at the last position.

If it was created in MS Windows, DOS, OS/2 etc. then it would have "\015" and "\012" ( CR+LF ) at the last two positions.

Since you are asking about CR+LF, I'd assume your file was created in Unix/Linux and has "\n" as the end-of-line character.

The sed command proposed earlier won't give correct results because it adds "\r\n" at the end, i.e. after the "\n" at the end.

Code:
$ 
$ # my system is Linux
$ uname -o
GNU/Linux
$ 
$ # create a file
$ for i in 1 2 3 ; do
>   echo "ABCDEF-LINE:00$i"
> done >data.txt
$ 
$ cat data.txt
ABCDEF-LINE:001
ABCDEF-LINE:002
ABCDEF-LINE:003
$ 
$ # check the octal dump
$ od -bc data.txt
0000000 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 012
          A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \n
0000020 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 062 012
          A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   2  \n
0000040 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 063 012
          A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   3  \n
0000060
$ 
$ # so we have just the "\n" as the EOL character
$ # try the sed script
$ sed 's/$/\r\n/' data.txt > new_data.txt
$ 
$ # check the octal dump
$ od -bc new_data.txt
0000000 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 015
          A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \r
0000020 012 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060
         \n  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0
0000040 062 015 012 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072
          2  \r  \n  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :
0000060 060 060 063 015 012 012
          0   0   3  \r  \n  \n
0000066
$ 
$ cat new_data.txt
ABCDEF-LINE:001

ABCDEF-LINE:002

ABCDEF-LINE:003

$

Here's one way to do it in Perl:

Code:
$ 
$ cat data.txt
ABCDEF-LINE:001
ABCDEF-LINE:002
ABCDEF-LINE:003
$ 
$ perl -ne 's/\n/\r\n/; print' data.txt >mod_data.txt
$ 
$ od -bc mod_data.txt
0000000 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 015
          A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \r
0000020 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 062
         \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   2
0000040 015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060
         \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0
0000060 063 015 012
          3  \r  \n
0000063
$

tyler_durden
# 7  
Old 07-27-2009
Here's another way using awk:
Code:
# od -bc < data.file
0000000   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 012
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \n
0000020   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 062 012
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   2  \n
0000040   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 063 012
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   3  \n
0000060   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 064 012
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   4  \n
0000100   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 065 012
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   5  \n
0000120

# awk '{RS="\n";ORS="\r\n"}1' data.file  | od -bc
0000000   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 015
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \r
0000020   012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 062
          \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   2
0000040   015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060
          \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0
0000060   063 015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060
           3  \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0
0000100   060 064 015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072
           0   4  \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :
0000120   060 060 065 015 012
           0   0   5  \r  \n
0000125

# awk '{RS="\n";ORS="\r\n"}1' data.file  > data.file.new

# od -bc < data.file.new
0000000   101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 061 015
           A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   1  \r
0000020   012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060 062
          \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0   2
0000040   015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060 060
          \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0   0
0000060   063 015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072 060
           3  \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :   0
0000100   060 064 015 012 101 102 103 104 105 106 055 114 111 116 105 072
           0   4  \r  \n   A   B   C   D   E   F   -   L   I   N   E   :
0000120   060 060 065 015 012
           0   0   5  \r  \n
0000125

# cat data.file.new
ABCDEF-LINE:001
ABCDEF-LINE:002
ABCDEF-LINE:003
ABCDEF-LINE:004
ABCDEF-LINE:005

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