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Old 08-08-2014
How to prepend spaces using sed command..?
hi all ,
i had the below sed command to append header at the starting of my output file ....
Code:
sed -i -e '1i saikumar   suresh    hemanth' output.txt

i want to append spaces to the Name saikumar how can i append with in this command ....?
Last edited by hemanthsaikumar; 08-08-2014 at 02:27 AM.. Reason: wrong type .. typed name for same
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Old 08-08-2014
Try e.g.
Code:
sed -e '1i\    saikumar   suresh    hemanth'

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