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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed to remove text from file Post 302966428 by Aia on Thursday 11th of February 2016 07:32:02 PM
Old 02-11-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by cmccabe
This doesen't seem to work although it does run:

Code:
sed -i -e 's|^|xxxx://www.xxx.com/xxx/xx/xxxx/list/|' /home/cmccabe/list

Thank you Smilie.
Hi cmccabe,

You are going to have to explain a bit more what you mean by "This [doesn't] seem to work". There is not much going on there.
sed will place the string: xxxx://www.xxx.com/xxx/xx/xxxx/list/ in front of every line and edit the file list.

You might need to explain your expectation and maybe show some bits of the result.

For troubleshooting you might want to test as:
Code:
echo "^This was the beginning before" | sed 's|^|xxxx://www.xxx.com/xxx/xx/xxxx/list/|'

Code:
xxxx://www.xxx.com/xxx/xx/xxxx/list/^This was the beginning before

 

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