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Old 05-18-2012
How to add trailer record at the end of the flat file in the unix ksh shell scripting?
Hi,

How to add trailer record at the end of the flat file in the unix ksh shell scripting

can you please let me know the procedure

Regards
Srikanth
# 2  
Old 05-18-2012
what is the desired output?
like this?
Code:
# cat file
test
# awk 'BEGIN{X="Record"}1;END{print X}' file
test
Record

# 3  
Old 05-18-2012
Can you try like...
Code:
 awk '{print $0,"\n000000"}' test1.txt

# 4  
Old 05-18-2012
You could just append a line to the file...

Code:
echo "trailer record" >> filename

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