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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append the end of each line in a file with a given string Post 302396406 by ahmad.diab on Thursday 18th of February 2010 10:06:12 AM
Old 02-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by nmattam
Hi ahmad.diab, i tried gawk '{$0=$0\\0 }1' infile.txt > outfile.txt but the result is not as expected. It appends a special character at the end. I am unable to copy the special character. And more over the string to be attached is a (\0 ie \zero). Any suggestions. Thanks.
be careful you have to put the quotation marks ("") around your string or the system will translate the \\0 to NULL string.


Code:
gawk '{$0=$0"\\0" }1' infile

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SYNOPSIS

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