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# 1  
Old 04-27-2009
Adding things in a file and produce a new one
I wanna add a ":" at the end of each line, and i did something like this:

cat Totals | while read ID TOTAL
do
echo "${ID}:${TOTAL}:" >>Totals2
done

File: Totals
12345678:13
21443433:20

The outputs file Totals2 is:
12345678:13::
21443433:20::

but i want
12345678:13:
21443433:20:

so how can i do it?
Thank you
# 2  
Old 04-27-2009
i find it out already.
# 3  
Old 04-27-2009
let me guess. IFS=: ?? Smilie
# 4  
Old 04-27-2009
try this:

Code:
cat filename | sed 's/$/:/g'

output:

12345678:13:
21443433:20:


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
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