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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed script for appending & prepending Post 302682963 by sathyaac on Tuesday 7th of August 2012 04:55:59 AM
Old 08-07-2012
Sed script for appending & prepending

Hello Mates

I am trying to write a script, which appends and prepends the text in a file.

I tried testing with a small file and it worked fine.
but for the large file, the script is wiping the entire file and adds only the word to be appended in the file.
Code:
mv $file_name $file_name.bak
sed -e "s/^/$prepend/g" $file_name.bak > $file_name

mv $file_name $file_name.bak1
sed -e "s/.*/&$append/g' $file_name.bak1 > $file_name

i execute my script like ./script_name prepend-word append-word filename

Please suggest, I am not very familiar with scripting.Smilie

Thanks
Satya

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-07-2012 at 06:51 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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