10-17-2011
Adding header and trailer into a file
Hi,
I want to add the below Header to all the files in sequence File1,File2,File3...etc
"ABC,<number of chracter in the file>"
e,g - If File1 is as below
pqrstuvdt
abcdefgh
then I want to add the above header into it ,So that File1 becomes as below
ABC,17
pqrstuvdt
abcdefgh
and I wanto do that for all the files in a directory .
Thanks in Advance
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