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Old 09-11-2008
Need assistance with appending strings using sed and variables

HI,

Can't seem to find anything on the forums to fix this.

I have a file, one line within this will not have a specific string at the end.

I have the string, but need to append it to the specific line which has it missing.

I need to use a variable for this, $string - I am using double quotes as below:

sed "/!*missing_string/a\ $string" file

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
# 2  
Old 09-11-2008
whats the problem??
# 3  
Old 09-11-2008
sed '/missing_string/!s/$/ missing_string/g' file

I've added a space in front of the second "missing_string" - assuming that you want a space before the word is appended to the line.
# 4  
Old 09-11-2008
Code:
sed "s/missing_string.*/& $string/" file

Regards
# 5  
Old 09-11-2008
hmm... I missed the $string part - sorry about that.
My script only works on the commandline - with the string manually provided

Last edited by avronius; 09-11-2008 at 01:33 PM.. Reason: grammer
# 6  
Old 09-11-2008
Thanks guys for your replies, but unfortunately it's still not writing the string to the end of the file.

It gets past the parser, and the rest of the script executes without problem, but no string on the end of my incomplete line.

Perhaps I didn't do a good job of explaining the problem:

1) My file has x amount of lines
2) One of these lines will have a string missing from the end of it
3) I have the string that needs to be appended to this line, stored as a variable $string
4) I want sed to locate the line with a missing end, the end is in format *T00:00:00
5) If it finds a line that doesn't have an ending matching *T00:00:00, it needs to append $string to this line.

Any further help will be greatly appreciated.

many thanks
# 7  
Old 09-11-2008
What is your script written in?
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