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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed help.. Post 302220804 by dafky2000 on Friday 1st of August 2008 03:19:53 PM
Old 08-01-2008
Question sed help..
Hi, i am trying to do work on a giant text file. I want to search each line for specifictext and if it exists i want it to append specifictext2 to the end of each file. Example:
1:John went to the school today
2:Max and John are best friends
3:Joe hates them both

Search for John and append (Happy People).
Resulting in:
1:John went to the school today(Happy People)
2:Max and John are best friends(Happy People)
3:Joe hates them both

So far i have gotten as far as:
sed -e "s/.*[Jj]ohn.*/(Happy People) /g" in.txt > out.txt

But, this only inputs it to the beginning of the line. Any help is appreciated, maybe if someone is more proficient with awk? Really, what ever gets it done.

ok so now i got "sed 's/.*[Jj]ohn.*/&(Happy People)' in.txt > out.txt"

How can i edit this to search multiple strings but only replace for the first found?
Last edited by dafky2000; 08-01-2008 at 04:58 PM.. Reason: progress
 

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CUFILTER(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      CUFILTER(1p)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       Add the following lines to your ~/.procmailrc:

	 # Filter mail through Mail::CheckUser
	 :0f
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DESCRIPTION

       When email messages are filtered through this program using the procmail settings as outlined in the SYNOPSYS, the email address in the
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EXAMPLES

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INSTALL

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COPYRIGHT

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