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# 1  
Old 08-17-2011
Append lines in a file
Legends,

Please help me out.

I have a file abc.txt with the following entries
Code:
JACK
JIL
SANDY
amer
europe
pak

Now, i want to append the character after each line.
but, condition is if it is UPPER case then character appended should be uppercase, else lowercase
example:
Code:
JACKL2
JILL2
SANDYL2
amerl2
europel2
pakl2

How do i do that ?

Please help

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags, thanks.
Last edited by zaxxon; 08-18-2011 at 02:32 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 08-17-2011
Code:
awk '{print /[[:upper:]]/?$0"L2":$0"l2"}' <yourfile>

# 3  
Old 08-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by dude2cool
Code:
awk '{print /[[:upper:]]/?$0"L2":$0"l2"}' <yourfile>

But it's giving me following error

Code:
sandy>  awk '{print /[[:upper:]]/?$0"L2":$0"l2"}' /tmp/list
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

Last edited by vbe; 08-17-2011 at 02:07 PM.. Reason: if you know how to use quotes you know how to use code
# 4  
Old 08-17-2011
Code:
$ awk ' { if($0~/[:upper:]/) {print $0"l2"}else{print $0"L2"} }' test
JACKL2
JILL2
SANDYL2
amerl2
europel2
pakl2

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# 5  
Old 08-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
$ awk ' { if($0~/[:upper:]/) {print $0"l2"}else{print $0"L2"} }' test
JACKL2
JILL2
SANDYL2
amerl2
europel2
pakl2


THANK YOU itkamaraj
It works Smilie
# 6  
Old 08-18-2011
Through Sed..
Code:
sed 's/[[:upper:]]$/&L2/;s/[[:lower:]]$/&l2/' inputfile

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