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Old 04-03-2008
Adding words to beginning of lines
I have a file that contains a great number of lines, let's say 183 lines, and I want to add: echo " to the beginning of each line. What is the easiest way to do it?

Tx
# 2  
Old 04-03-2008
I would use sed for that purpose, remember to escape the "
# 3  
Old 04-03-2008
Code:
 awk '{print "echo \""$0}' infile

or

Code:
 sed 's/^/echo "/' infile

# 4  
Old 04-03-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernst
I have a file that contains a great number of lines, let's say 183 lines, and I want to add: echo " to the beginning of each line. What is the easiest way to do it?

Tx

Code:
cat filename.txt  | perl -ne 'print "echo " . $_' > output.txt

# 5  
Old 04-03-2008
Another one:

Code:
sed 's/.*/echo "&"/' file

Regards
# 6  
Old 04-03-2008
Thanks!

This command works: sed 's/.*/echo "&"/'

What if I want at the same time to add something to the end of each line.
i.e echo "unixtest=test" >> firsttest

what would the command be to add the >> firsttest to teh end of each line
# 7  
Old 04-03-2008
Code:
sed 's/.*$/& >> firsttest/' file
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