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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need assistance with appending strings using sed and variables Post 302235502 by mandriver on Friday 12th of September 2008 04:20:30 AM
Old 09-12-2008
Thanks Franklin

Nearly there, but $string is being written one-space into the beginning of the line, not at the end.

Trying to work it out but haven't cracked it yet!
 

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