UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

The output you are showing us looks close to the results we would have expected from the script you showed us in post #3. I would have expected the output from that command to be:

Code:

$abc$st$xyz

instead of:

Code:

$abcd$str$xyz

I think Corona688 had a typo in post #4:

Code:

sed 's/[.]/|$|g' input-file > different-output-file

and intended to use:

Code:

sed 's|[.]/|$|g' input-file > different-output-file

With that change, you should have gotten exactly what you asked for in different-output-file if input-file contained the text you showed us in post #1. And either of Scrutinizer's suggestions in post #6 should also have given you exactly what you wanted if you added the name of an input file to those commands where that input file contained the text from post #1.

What operating system are you using? What shell are you using? Are you absolutely positive that the input file(s) you gave to Corona688's and Scrutinizer's suggestions was the text shown in post #1?

Hello Corona688 and Don,

Thanks a lot. What you said is very true. It's working. It was my fault.

Thanks for saving my time.