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Old 03-24-2012
Add header and footer with record count in footer
This is my file(Target.txt)
Code:
name|age|locaction
abc|23|del
xyz|24|mum
jkl|25|kol


The file should be like this
Code:
1|03252012
1|name|age|location
2|abc|23|del
2|xyz|24|mum
2|jkl|25|kol
2|kkk|26|hyd
3|4


Column 1 is row indicator
for row 1 and 2, column indicator is 1,for data rows its 2 and for footer its 3.
for footer the record count is is required.

Please help me how to achive it
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-25-2012 at 07:48 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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Old 03-25-2012
I assume the first row is the current date.
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{"date +%m%d%Y" | getline first; print "1|" first} {if(NR>1){print "2|"$0}else{print "1|"$0} ++c}END{print "3|"c}' infile

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