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Old 09-09-2014
Add words in beginning , end after removing a word in a file
My file has the entries like below...

Code:
/dev/sds
/dev/sdak
/dev/sdbc
/dev/sdbu

I want to make the file like below

Code:
echo 1 > /sys/block/sds/device/rescan 
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdak/device/rescan 
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbc/device/rescan 
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbu/device/rescan

Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-09-2014 at 04:52 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 09-09-2014
Try something like:
Code:
sed 's/^/echo 1 > /' file

# 3  
Old 09-09-2014
Code:
sed -r 's#^/dev(.*)$#echo 1 > /sys/block\1/device/rescan#' infile > outfile

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