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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

# 2  
Old 04-28-2010
Works for me...
Code:
cat > i
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
sed '/^Fred/s/$/***/' i
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***

# 3  
Old 04-28-2010
try in awk
Code:
awk '{print $0 "***" }' your_file

# 4  
Old 04-28-2010
I suspect your input file is in DOS format. This means that at the end of the line there are two characters: 'carriage return (CR)' and 'linefeed (LF)'. With your sed statement you are only replacing the LF by '***' plus a new LF. so your sentence becomes:
Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780CR***LF

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

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

does indeed work because then you delete the CR (the "." takes care of it) , so your sentence becomes:
Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780***LF

So I think you should convert the file to unix format first and then the original sed statement should work.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-28-2010 at 05:23 AM..
# 5  
Old 04-28-2010
sed -n '/^Fred/s/$/***/p' 1
# 6  
Old 04-28-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I suspect your input file is in DOS format. This means that at the end of the line there are two characters: 'carriage return (CR)' and 'linefeed (LF)'. With your sed statement you are only replacing the LF by '***' plus a new LF. so your sentence becomes:
Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780CR***LF

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

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

does indeed work because then you delete the CR (the "." takes care of it) , so your sentence becomes:
Code:
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780***LF

So I think you should convert the file to unix format first and then the original sed statement should work.
Right on the money. That was exactly the problem. I simply copied the contents of the file, created a new one in emacs and pasted it in there, and then renamed it to the original. Then all of a sudden it started to work. Thanks.

There are things you know, and things you know you don't know, and then there's things you don't know you don't know. That was something I didn't know I didn't know. God that was frustrating. To know your code is correct, but then it doesn't work is probably one of the worst part of this profession.

Last edited by DrSammyD; 04-28-2010 at 04:32 PM..
 
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