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Old 12-03-2003
append word to lines
Hi all,

Can someone suggest how to append some word to all lines in file. for example word "Honey" to file f1 with lines:
Mia
Katrin
Elizabeth

to get

Honey Mia
Honey Katrin
Honey Elizabeth

Thanks in advance

Givi
# 2  
Old 12-03-2003
sed -e 's/^/Honey /g' < input_file_name > output_file_name

Hope it works..

-..-
# 3  
Old 12-03-2003
awk '{print "Honey", $0}' infile > outfile
# 4  
Old 12-03-2003
cool, I found solutions to two threads Smilie

perl -i -pne "s/^/Honey/g" filename


here you dont need another file

the other thread is
here
 
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