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Old 12-01-2012
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Originally Posted by jason6247
how to add value/word at the beginning of each line in a file ?

i have file number.txt and the output is below

1000
1001
1002
1003
1004

i want to add 000 at the beginning of each line, desire output is below
0001000
0001001
0001002
0001003
0001004
and so on

please advise how to do it, i been searching forum but with no luck

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i have tried command seq -f "%010g" first number last number
but seq can only format number until 6 digit long, it wont print output 0000100001 0000100002 instead it become 0000.5.+.09 something
Have a look at :
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...es-column.html
Regards
 

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NAME
gnutls_pkcs11_token_get_url - API function SYNOPSIS
#include <gnutls/pkcs11.h> int gnutls_pkcs11_token_get_url(unsigned int seq, gnutls_pkcs11_url_type_t detailed, char ** url); ARGUMENTS
unsigned int seq sequence number starting from 0 gnutls_pkcs11_url_type_t detailed non zero if a detailed URL is required char ** url will contain an allocated url DESCRIPTION
This function will return the URL for each token available in system. The url has to be released using gnutls_free() RETURNS
On success, GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS (0) is returned, GNUTLS_E_REQUESTED_DATA_NOT_AVAILABLE if the sequence number exceeds the available tokens, otherwise a negative error value. SINCE
2.12.0 REPORTING BUGS
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Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. SEE ALSO
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