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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting text with SED Post 302471164 by Scrutinizer on Friday 12th of November 2010 05:56:19 AM
Old 11-12-2010
@spirm8, your sed statement is correct and it should not be doing that. There probably is something wrong with the input file. What platform are you on, how did you create the input file.
Also, what is the output of
Code:
od -c < file.txt

and:
Code:
printf "1\n2\n3\n4\n" | sed 's/$/@test.com/'

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