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Old 10-07-2013
Append data to first column delimited file

Hi,

I have a data like

Input:
12||34|56|78
Output:
XYZ|12||34|56|78


I tried like this , but it puts it on another line
Code:
awk -F "|" ' BEGIN {"XYZ"} {print $0} 'file


Any quick suggessitons in sed/awk ? am using HP-UX
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Old 10-07-2013
Try:
Code:
sed 's/^/XYZ|/' file

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Old 10-07-2013
Hello,

Could you please try the following command for same.

Code:
awk '{print "XYZ|"}'1 ORS=""  filename

It will show output as follows.

Code:
XYZ|12||34|56|78


Thanks,
R. Singh
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Old 10-07-2013
cool , both the solution works .... thanks a lot Smilie
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