how to add text into the last line of text file Post: 302703659

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add text to file at a certain line

I am trying to add a line of text just before the last line in a file. For example, if the last line of a file is "exit 0", I need to add a line of text just before that. Any ideas how I might do that? Thanks

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to add a comment line in a text file

Hi I need to add a comment line at the begining of a text file. The scenario is given below. 1. The number of servers that needs to be updated is around 80 2. The location of the text file in all the servers are the same including the file name. 3. The comment has to be added at the very...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding specific text and spaces to each line in a text file

Hi, I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example: 0 8 7 6 5 5 7 8 9 0 7 9 7 8 9 0 1 2 And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this: 21 0 8 7 6 5 5 7 8...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to insert some constant text at beginig of each line within a text file.

Dear Folks :), I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp. I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_ e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text: michal...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Search text from a file and print text and one previous line too

Hi, Please let me know how to find text and print text and its previous line. Please don't get irritated few days back I asked text and next line. I am using HP-UX 11.11 Thanks for your help.

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to add line numbers in text file

Hi all How to add line numbers in text file.. ex abcd cdef result 1. abcd 2. cdef thx in advance

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add one text line in the head of the file

hello, how can I add one text line string at the line number one of a file. thankx,

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add ; to every line in text file

Please help to add ; to every line in a text file i Have tired sed 's/$/ ; /g' > /tmp/drop_tables.sql but not working :( Thanks

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed add after line x new text from file

I've been playing with sed, trying to get it to insert the contents of somefile.txt after line 13 on anotherfile.txt. I tried searching for a line with regex and attempting to insert something on the next line with: find ./anotherfile.txt -type f -exec sed -i -e '/^dog/cat/' {} \; but it...

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Extracting lines from a text file based on another text file with line numbers

Hi, I am trying to extract lines from a text file given a text file containing line numbers to be extracted from the first file. How do I go about doing this? Thanks!

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

shanty

SHANTY(1)							      Shanty								 SHANTY(1)

NAME

       Shanty - Makes a PostScript file from an image and some text.

SYNOPSIS

       shanty -i image_file [-t text_file] [-o output_file] [-s paper_size] [-d density] [-m margin] [-b background_color] [-x padding] [-n title]
       [-l orientation] [-rtl] [-btt] [-f font_name] [-altgd]

DESCRIPTION

       Shanty takes a text file and an image (PNG or JPG) and creates a PostScript file where one pixel in the image becomes one character in  the
       PostScript.

OPTIONS

       -i, -image
		 Name of the image to load in. JPG and PNG images are supported. This is the only compulsory field.

       -t, -text Name of the text file to load in, if omitted STDIN is used.

       -o, -output
		 Name of the PostScript file to produce, if omitted STDOUT is used.

       -s, -size Size  of  the	paper  to  work  with.	This  field  should be one of: "a0", "a2", "a3", "a4", "a5", "a6", "letter", "broadsheet",
		 "ledger", "tabloid", "legal", "executive" and "36x36". Default is "a4".

       -d, -density
		 Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.

       -m, -margin
		 The margins of the page in cm. Default is 1.

       -b, -background
		 The colour of a backing rectangle to place behind the text. Colours are specified as "R,G,B" with each value between 0  and  255.
		 "off" means no backing colour. Default is "off".

       -x, -p, -padding
		 Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.

       -n, -title
		 The title of the output to write as meta-data in the PostScript file. Default is "Shanty output".

       -l, -orientation
		 The orientation of the paper, can be "portrait", "landscape" or "auto". Default is "auto".

       -rtl	 Switch to right-to-left text.

       -btt	 Switch to bottom-to-top text.

       -f, -font Specify font. The font name specified must be visible to the not just make a font magically appear. Default is "Courier-Bold".

       -altgd	 If you have problems loading the GD library, try this switch.

HOMEPAGE

       <http://www.codebunny.org/coding/shanty/>

AUTHOR

       Duncan Martin <duncan@codebunny.org>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Many thanks to DFB <http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb/> and contributors to comp.lang.postscript.

Duncan Martin							  6 October 2006							 SHANTY(1)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Add text to file at a certain line

Discussion started by: TheCrunge

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to add a comment line in a text file

Discussion started by: orakhan

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding specific text and spaces to each line in a text file

Discussion started by: hertingm

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to insert some constant text at beginig of each line within a text file.

Discussion started by: Muhammad Afzal