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Old 08-09-2011
Appending a word to the last line
Hi,

I would like to append input given id at last line of file.
For ex: In the following sample.txt file i would like to append the input given user id (after id6,id7) but it is adding on the next line instead same line.

Sample.txt
read=id1,id2,id3
write=id4,id5,id6

Quote:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter id"
read id
echo ","{$id} >> sample.txt
Thanks
Raveendran
# 2  
Old 08-09-2011
GNU sed:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter id"
read id
sed -i '$ s/$/,'"$id"'/' sample.txt

Without "-i" option you can redirect output to /tmp/tempfile.$$ and then mv this file to "sample.txt".
Last edited by yazu; 08-09-2011 at 12:42 AM..
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# 3  
Old 08-09-2011
Code:
printf ,%s\\n "$id" >> file
printf %s\\n -,.j w q | ed -s file

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister
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# 4  
Old 08-09-2011
alister,

Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
Code:
printf ,%s\\n "$id" >> file
printf %s\\n -,.j w q | ed -s file

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister
can you please explain that command?

Thank You,
Ahamed

---------- Post updated at 11:50 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:46 PM ----------

Never mind, I got it... Smilie

-,.j
w
q

these are the input to the "ed"

Thanks,
Ahamed
# 5  
Old 08-09-2011
simply use this :
Code:
sed 's/$/,'"$ID"'/' filename

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-09-2011 at 11:04 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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# 6  
Old 08-10-2011
Thanks alot
Thanks alot . Sorry for the late reply.
# 7  
Old 08-10-2011
raveendran...Sorry for jumping onto your post, but i am stuck in my statement.can you please have a look @my post? thx 2u.
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