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Old 04-28-2010
Sed $ appending to front, not to the end
I keep trying to append some astrix to the end of a line, but it keeps overwriting at the front of the line.

These are the originals

Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900

Here's the output

Code:
***d Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
***d Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900

It's supposed to look like this
Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900***
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900***

My code looks like this
Code:
sed '/^Fred/s/$/***/' inputfile

Does that make any sense at all? Is there any situation where it would do that?

---------- Post updated at 11:59 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:49 PM ----------

If you think it should work, please tell me, so that maybe I can go about installing a different version of sed.

---------- Post updated 04-28-10 at 01:05 AM ---------- Previous update was 04-27-10 at 11:59 PM ----------

Figured it out.

apparently sed needs a . before the $
the proper code looks like this

Code:
sed '/^Fred/s/.$/***/' inputfile

 
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