Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey - my first post here, and I'm a total SED newb. I've looked around for previous help on this, but have so far been unsuccessful.

I have a program (AMStracker for OS X) that outputs data in the terminal. Output is in this form:

.
.
.
3 0 -75
3 0 -76
3 0 -77
5 0 -75
3 0 -76
3 0 -75
5 0 -76
6 0 -76
2 0 -75
2 0 -75
5 0 -76
3 0 -76
5 0 -77
3 0 -75
3 0 -77
.
.
.

column ranges are from -255 to +255, but that should not matter here...

All I want to do is pipe AMStracker output into SED so that the final output looks like this:

.
.
.
3 0 -75;
3 0 -76;
3 0 -77;
5 0 -75;
3 0 -76;
3 0 -75;
5 0 -76;
.
.
.

Basically I want to append a ';' to each line.

I've been fooling around and so far have this:

./amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed a\\n";"

Which does not work. I get errors I don't undestand:

--> sed: 1: "a\n;": extra characters after \ at the end of a command

Can anyone offer some help? I woudl assume that something liek this should be rather simple for SED. Should I be using another tool?

I found the answer on this forum... sorry for the repeat.

Here is the link to the post that helps:

https://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/21191-using-sed-append-text-end-each-line.html

Actually this implementation does not work for me. Not entirely at least.

I do get the output I am looking for with this, ie.:

.
.
.
10 0 8;
10 0 8;
10 0 8;
10 0 7;
10 0 8;
.
.
.

However, it strips either the carriage return or the new line, or both, which I need to retain. For example:

running

/amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed 's/$/;/'

gives the output seen above, but if I try running

/amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed 's/$/;/' | sed 's/$/;/'

Which I should be able to do (it would just add another ';' to each line right?)

In reality I see nothing in the terminal when I run this.

I'm trying to add a newline or carriage return after the ;, but I'm not sure how...

Again, I'm a SED newb.

Code:

/amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed 's/.*/&;/'

Thanx, but it still does not work for me.

I'll be more specific:

After the ./amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed 's/.*/&;/'

I want to pipe it into netcat (nc) so I can send it over the network, or to another port on the same machine. I know it's a weird setup, but it's a hack that will save me a lot of work in the future.

When I do:

./amstracker -u 0.05 -s | sed 's/.*/&;/' | nc 127.0.0.1 5001

it connects to an instance of: nc -l -p 5001 (on 127.0.0.1)

but no data goes thorough...

I'm cleary an idiot.


Any more suggestions?