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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using sed to find and append or insert on SAME line Post 302975593 by Imre on Wednesday 15th of June 2016 07:15:45 PM
Old 06-15-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Unfortunately it's not much clearer now, at least to me. Let me try to help by just guessing what you need, ignoring the samples you gave above.
Please be aware that sed matches case sensitive (unless told otherwise in some versions), so without extra effort it won't find the word Difficult if there's difficult in the file:
Code:
sed '/[Dd]ifficult/ s/$/Easy/' file

Here, /[Dd].../ is an address to find the relevant line(s) and append thereto.

For the second part of your question, you got me confused - there's no _DLY part nor randomcondition-OKODAT AND

If you want to prepend a string with another, use & : man sed:

Try
Code:
sed 's/-OK/_DLY&/' file

will result in _DLY-OK printed in the output.

Thanks for trying to understand me, i am actually laughing now, so thank you.
I dont know what it is with me and why i confuse people so much at times,
Sorry i am just confused now i really hate feeling like this.
I dont understand the sed pages at all, well at least i think i dont,

so maybe if i can just explain it in a form of a sentence.
1a
i want to basically append at the end of a line where the search pattern i am searching for is found, thats it.

so regardless what the line says , if i find the word rabbit i want to append the string of my choice at the very-very end of the line
1b
you just confused me with the /[Dd].../ part im sorry no offense, but i dont understand. Maybe if u show me an example or 2.... or maybe i dont need to know this.

2.
with regards to this question, what i have seems to make sense to me.
What i mean by randomcondition is that the names of the conditions are always unique they can be anything BUT they normally or always end with -OK
This is the only part i can use "-OK" where i know i would like to insert my own string to the left of the "-OK".
blahconditionname"mystring"-OK

hope it makes a bit more sense
 

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