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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed add special character Post 302980640 by RavinderSingh13 on Wednesday 31st of August 2016 06:00:38 AM
Old 08-31-2016
Hello stinkefisch,

Following may help you in same.
Code:
echo "test.test.test" | sed 's/\(.*\.\)\(.*\)/\1\\\2 */g'

Output will be as follows.
Code:
test.test.\test *

In awk following may help you in same.
Code:
echo "test.test.test" | awk -F"." '{$NF="\\"$NF " *"} 1' OFS="."

EDIT: Adding one more solution for same now too.
Code:
cat script.ksh
A="test.test.test"
B=${A%.*}
C=${A##*.}
 echo $B".\\"$C" *"

So when we run above then following output will come.
Code:
 ./script.ksh
test.test.\test *

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 08-31-2016 at 07:23 AM.. Reason: Added one more solution on same now.
 

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