I want to print out a directory listing, then append [[ to the beggining and ]] to the end of each line. I'm trying to create a list of Wiki links based on folder listings that i can just copy and paste without having to edit 100's of file listings.

Using sed i've figured out to do something like this:

sed "s/$/]]/g" documentation.txt > test.txt

How do i do the prepend? And how do i put this into one line of code that i can possibly pipe the directoryling listing to sed..

ls /documentation | sed .... etc


Thanks!

CapnDoody (Chris)

Should work

ls | sed 's/^/[[/;s/$/]]/'

Dynamite!

ls | awk '{print "[["$0"]]"}'

Can you break down that code for me? What is $0 doing for us? Placeholder for each line starting at 0?

How would is use awk if i wanted to input a file and output to new file?

 awk '{print "[["$0"]]"}' firstfile.txt >> newfile.txt