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Old 08-29-2011
How to Add space at the end of each line in linux
hi,.
I am writing a small script in csh...
Can any one tel me how to add space at end of each line in a file
# 2  
Old 08-29-2011
Code:
$ awk '{print $0" "}' inputfile

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Old 08-29-2011
Code:
 
sed 's/.*/& /' input

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Old 08-29-2011
Code:
 
sed 's/$/ /g' input

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Old 08-29-2011
No need for the global flag, since there's only one end of line per line.
Code:
sed 's/$/ /' input

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Alister
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Old 08-29-2011
true ... just wrote out of habit Smilie
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Old 08-29-2011
at the end of line
thank u all ... but these are not working

I have a file called projects
the contents are
project1
project2
project3
project4

After each and every line i should append space
the contents should be like
project1"space"
project2"space"
project3"space"
project4"space"

can u all help me out in this
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