Append Header and Trailer

balzzz · #1 (**permalink**) 01-06-2008

Hi everyone,

I am new to Unix programming. My inquries is:-
a) How to add a Header and Trailer in the set of data
b) Include a number count of the data in the trailer

The set of data only contained the information of 'Customer's Name' and 'Account Number'. I would like to add the Header and a Trailer to the sets of data.

Hope you all will be able to assist me. Appreciate it alot.
Thanks

radoulov · #2 (**permalink**) 01-06-2008

Search google for some basic awk tutorial.

ghostdog74 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-06-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by balzzz

Hi everyone,

I am new to Unix programming. My inquries is:-
a) How to add a Header and Trailer in the set of data

depending on what you mean by header and trailer, if
1) you want to add header/trailer to a file, basic shell operations like >> may suffice,eg

Code:

# echo "header" > newfile
# cat dataset >> newfile
# echo "trailer >> newfile

2) if you want to add header/trailer to records in a file

Code:

while read line
do
 echo "header $line trailer"
done  < "dataset" > newfile

Quote:

b) Include a number count of the data in the trailer

for that, i leave it to you to find out yourself

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