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Old 05-09-2007
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Hi experts,

i have some problem with inserting text to a file, i have a file named test.log output like this :

11111 22222 33333 44444 55555

i want to insert date into the file test.log, expected output is :

20070501 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555


any idea?

please help

Thank you

Regards,

bucci
# 2  
Old 05-09-2007
Code:
perl -i -ne ' print "20070501 $_" ' file

# 3  
Old 05-09-2007
alternatively you could use

Code:
dt=$(date +%Y%m%d)
sed '1,$s/^/'$dt'/g file

# 4  
Old 05-09-2007
Hi anbu and ahmed,

thank you for your response

it work for me now

Regards,

bucci
# 5  
Old 05-09-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmedwaseem2000
alternatively you could use

Code:
dt=$(date +%Y%m%d)
sed '1,$s/^/'$dt'/g file


should be a typo..
it should be
sed '1,$s/^/'$dt' /g' file

(added a space after '$dt' as per the OP's output )

or

just this would do,
sed '/^/'$dt' /g' file Smilie
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