insert some text to a file log

bucci · #1 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007

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

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007

Code:

perl -i -ne ' print "20070501 $_" ' file

ahmedwaseem2000 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007

alternatively you could use

Code:

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

bucci · #4 (**permalink**) 05-09-2007

Hi anbu and ahmed,

thank you for your response

it work for me now

Regards,

bucci

matrixmadhan · #5 (**permalink**) 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

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