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Old 11-06-2005
Lightbulb to add new column for all reocrds in a file in KSH please
i want to add a new column at the end for all the reocrds in a
file

for ex:

file name is abc.wlg.x.y.z
records like
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8
2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,k
3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,k,l
4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,u,i,o
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,i,u

i want to add xyz for all the records into file abc.wlg.x.y.z
and output like
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,xyz
2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,k,xyz
3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,k,l,xyz
4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,u,i,o,xyz
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,u,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,8,y,i,u,xyz
Last edited by pulse2india; 11-06-2005 at 12:36 AM..
# 2  
Old 11-06-2005
Try this:
sed 's/$/,xyz/' < inputfile > outputfile
# 3  
Old 11-06-2005
If you want an in place substitution:

perl -p -i -e 's/$/,xyz/g' file_name

Just a substituted output:

sed 's/$/,xyz/g' file_name
# 4  
Old 11-06-2005
to add columns to all the records in a file
thanks for input...
i want to change like i have to add 'xyz' in 18th position and its a comma delimeted one.
Thanks in advance
# 5  
Old 11-06-2005
Code:
nawk ' 
  BEGIN {
     FS=OFS=","
  }
  { $17=$17 FS "xyz" }
  1' inputfile

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