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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers add (append) a column in a tab delimited file Post 302592038 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 22nd of January 2012 12:25:53 PM
Old 01-22-2012
Code:
awk 'NR==1 {print}  NR>1 {printf("%s\t%s\n", $0, "*") }' input.csv > newoutput.csv

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 01-22-2012 at 01:47 PM.. Reason: assume first line is column headers
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