pasting text into an existing file

darthur · #1 (**permalink**) 12-13-2001

I have a text file that has over 300 lines that I need to paste identical data to. What is the easiest way to do this? For example if I have a file that has lines of text xxxxxxxx and I would like to change each line to look like this "display text(xxxxxxxx)". What would be the easiest way to do this? Would I do something like

cat xxxxx.txt while read line
do ?

This is what I currently have:
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx

This is what I want to change it to.
display text(xxxxxxxx)
display text(xxxxxxxx)
display text(xxxxxxxx)
display text(xxxxxxxx)
display text(xxxxxxxx)

Thanks,

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 12-13-2001

sed 's/^/display text (/;s/$/)/' < xxxxxx.txt
would probably be the easiest. But if you're intent on using a shell...

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh
exec < xxxxxx.txt
while read line ; do
      echo 'display text ('${line}')'
done
exit 0

darthur · #3 (**permalink**) 12-13-2001

Yu da man

#4 (**permalink**) 12-13-2001

And here is an awk solution:

awk '{print "display text (" $0 ")"}' xxxxx.txt > newfile.txt

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