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# 36  
Old 06-30-2003
If you have more fields, you'll have to change $4 to reflect the field that contains the number in it.
Code:
number=`head -n 1 text3 | awk '{print $4}'`

while read LINE
do
 echo "$LINE" | grep -q "^LINE"
 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "$number $LINE"
 else
  echo "$LINE"
  number=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{print $4}'`
 fi
done < yourFile

# 37  
Old 06-30-2003
hmm...
Code:
[project4] # ./import                                       
head: cannot open text3: No such file or directory (error 2)

is it a problem that LINE is also a shell command?
# 38  
Old 06-30-2003
I sorted out that error, but it doesn't seem to have written anything to the file :/
# 39  
Old 06-30-2003
That's because the code doesn't tell it to write to a file.. this does:
Code:
number=`head -n 1 yourFile | awk '{print $4}'`

while read LINE
do
 echo "$LINE" | grep -q "^LINE"
 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "$number $LINE" >> resultFile
 else
  echo "$LINE" >> resultFile
  number=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{print $4}'`
 fi
done < yourFile

mv resultFile yourFile

# 40  
Old 07-01-2003
omg oombera!!! you completely and utterly ROCK! Smilie

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
# 41  
Old 07-02-2003
is it possible to modify the script to print the number at the end of lines begining with LINE, instead of at the start?
# 42  
Old 07-02-2003
Yea, just switch one line of code around:

echo "$LINE $number" >> resultFile
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