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Old 03-18-2010
Appending the first word of each line to the end of each line
Hi Experts,

Am relatively new to shell programming so would appreciate some help in this regard.
I am looking at reading from a file, line by line, picking the first word of each line and appending it to the end of the line.

Any suggestions?

INPUT FILE -
Code:
3735051 : 10gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=
3735052 : 11gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=
3735053 : 112gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=

This is how id like my output file to look like -
Code:
3735051 : 10gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=3735051
3735052 : 11gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=3735052
3735053 : 112gdb_nonfa_noldapsync_ps2 : http://dte.com/dte30/faces/monitorPage/jobId=3735053

TIA
Last edited by zaxxon; 03-18-2010 at 11:56 AM.. Reason: use code tags pleasy, ty
# 2  
Old 03-18-2010
Use code tags next time please. If not sure what I am talking about, leave me a note.

To your problem:
Code:
awk '{print $0$1}' infile

# 3  
Old 03-18-2010
This works well, thanks !!
My bad about the code tags, will keep in mind in future !
# 4  
Old 03-18-2010
And yet another -

Code:
perl -lane 'print $_,$F[0]' yourfile

tyler_durden
# 5  
Old 03-18-2010
... and another Smilie
Code:
sed 's/^\([^ ]*\).*/&\1/' file

Cheers,
Alister
# 6  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
awk '$0=$0$1' urfile

# 7  
Old 03-23-2010
Code:
sed 's/\(.[^:]*\)\(.*\)/\1\2\1/' file
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