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How to insert some constant text at beginig of each line within a text file.
Dear Folks
 ,I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp. I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_ e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text: michal David Lisa Antonio Now I want to insert BBB at the beging of every line and out put should look like belwo: BBB_michal BBB_David BBB_Lisa BBB_Antonio Is there are way by using sed, awk or any other command I can get the above out put file. I want to run this command at UNIX command prompt. Please advice & your feed back is highly appreciated. Many thanks Kind Regards M.Afzal |
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yes, if your file is line sequential file
you can use awk awk ' { print "BBB_" $0 } ' yourfilename > outputfilename |
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Dear Paresh,
You command works very fine, its perfect and you are really intelligent. Many thanks, Kind Regards, Muhammad Afzal |
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Alternative...
Code:
(04:35:36\[ddeco***@S.ManDNCS) [~]$ cat test michal David Lisa Antonio (04:35:36\[ddeco***@S.ManDNCS) [~]$ sed 's/^/BBB_/g' test BBB_michal BBB_David BBB_Lisa BBB_Antonio |
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Code:
sed 's/^/BBC_/' file |
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