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Old 10-14-2008
Insert two strings at the beginning and at the end of each line of a file
Hi, excuse me for my poor english.
My problem is that:

I have a File
i want to add to each line of that file two strings: one at the beginning of the line, one at the ending.

string1="abcd"
string2="efgh"

i want $string1 content $string2 for each line.
Is that possible?
# 2  
Old 10-14-2008
Code:
awk '{ print "abcd", $0, "efgh" } ' inputfilename> tmp.tmp
# with variables
awk -v string1="$string1" -v string2="$string2" '{ print string1, $0, string2 } ' inputfilename> tmp.tmp

mv tmp.tmp inputfilename

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 10-14-2008 at 12:48 PM..
# 3  
Old 10-14-2008
thank you very much for the quick reply. It works flawlessly Smilie

I'd like to know also how to remove the spaces between content and strings inserted if it's possible
# 4  
Old 10-14-2008
Ignore me, i've found how to remove spaces by myself.

Thanks again Smilie
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