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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Trying to add currrent date as the first the first column in the file Post 302628325 by pankaj_tarale on Monday 23rd of April 2012 09:43:28 AM
Old 04-23-2012
Hi Ajay,
Below is your answer by sed for date .
Code:
#!/bin/bash
  
searchdate=$(date +%d/%m/%Y)
  
sed -i "s|^|  $searchdate |" myfile


While number or character you can do directly as below:

Code:
sed -i 's/$/ 1000/' myfile

sed -i 's/^/ 1000/' myfile

Last edited by radoulov; 04-23-2012 at 10:47 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
 

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GCIN(1) 						    gcin input method platform							   GCIN(1)

NAME

       gcin - an input method server

SYNOPSIS

       gcin [-h|-v|--version]

DESCRIPTION

       gcin  is  an input method(IM) server, which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. It is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese,
       and many other languages. IM table format of gcin is almost as same as those of scim and xcin. Users may append their IMs to gcin very eas-
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       If you are looking for configuration tool of gcin, please see the manpage of gcin-tools.

OPTIONS

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	      Show version of gcin.

FILES

       /usr/share/gcin/table/gtab.list
	      Input  methods  available  for  gcin. You may copy it to $HOME/.gcin/ and edit it as you like. If you have no $HOME/.gcin/gtab.list,
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

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       XMODIFIERS
	      For bash: export XMODIFIERS=@im=gcin
	      For csh: setenv XMODIFIERS @im=gcin

       GTK_IM_MODULE
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       GCIN_TABLE_DIR
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SEE ALSO

       gcin-tools(1), gcin2tab(1), phoa2d(1), juyin-learn(1), gcin-message(1)

AUTHORS

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