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Old 04-17-2019
Add the word "prefix" to beginning of line using sed
SUSE linux
bash shell

this works
Code:
test -d /tmpp && echo "directory exists" || echo "directory doesn't exists"  |sed -e "s/^/prefix /"
   prefix directory doesn't exists

but why doesn't this work?
Code:
 test -d /tmp && echo "directory exists" || echo "directory doesn't exists"  |sed -e "s/^/prefix /"
   directory exists

# 2  
Old 04-17-2019
most likely because /tmpp != /tmp
# 3  
Old 04-17-2019
If you want it to work, both echo statements have to be part of one single process, I chose a subprocess:
Code:
( test -d /tmp && echo "directory exists" || echo "directory doesn't exists" ) | sed -e "s/^/prefix /"
 prefix directory exists

Otherwise the part after the || is part of the second compound statement (echo )not the first.
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 04-17-2019 at 07:58 PM..
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# 4  
Old 04-18-2019
I guess even a { code block; } is forced into a subshell because of the pipe.
An if-then-fi is a code block, too. The following is unusual but standard
Code:
if test -d /tmp; then
  echo "directory exists"
else
  echo "directory doesn't exist"
fi | sed -e "s/^/prefix /"

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