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# 1  
Old 10-10-2017
How to add space in front of cat values?

Hi,

Hope you are all doing fine.

The problem today i faced during my coding was i wanted to add a space equals to a tab character in front of all the lines which i am cat using tee command.

Main file contents

mainfile
Code:
1,/level1/level2/CAP_data.171002/20171002_060344_53608614,20171002_060344_53608614
2,/level1/level2/20171005_023901_56688702,20171005_023901_56688702
3,/level1/level2/20171005_023903_13697660,20171005_023903_13697660
4,/level1/level2/20171005_023905_33947650,20171005_023905_33947650
5,/level1/level2/20171005_023906_11666112,20171005_023906_11666112
6,/level1/level2/20171005_023908_49545338,20171005_023908_49545338
7,/level1/level2/20171005_023911_18875126,20171005_023911_18875126
8,/level1/level2/20171005_023913_36372644,20171005_023913_36372644
9,/level1/level2/20171005_023915_3539570,20171005_023915_3539570

Code:
cat $mainfile  | tee -a $log

I am actually cat'ting the file content to a user menu and a log file i want to add space in front of all the lines shown above it should be regardless of the no of lines in the file content!!
like below snap shot.

Code:
	1,/level1/level2/CAP_data.171002/20171002_060344_53608614,20171002_060344_53608614
	2,/level1/level2/20171005_023901_56688702,20171005_023901_56688702
	3,/level1/level2/20171005_023903_13697660,20171005_023903_13697660
	4,/level1/level2/20171005_023905_33947650,20171005_023905_33947650
	5,/level1/level2/20171005_023906_11666112,20171005_023906_11666112
	6,/level1/level2/20171005_023908_49545338,20171005_023908_49545338
	7,/level1/level2/20171005_023911_18875126,20171005_023911_18875126
	8,/level1/level2/20171005_023913_36372644,20171005_023913_36372644
	9,/level1/level2/20171005_023915_3539570,20171005_023915_3539570

Kindly help me out for this.
# 2  
Old 10-10-2017
Not sure I totally follow. Some punctuation would not go a miss ;-)

Code:
$ sed "s/^/  /" t.txt
  1,/level1/level2/CAP_data.171002/20171002_060344_53608614,20171002_060344_53608614
  2,/level1/level2/20171005_023901_56688702,20171005_023901_56688702
  3,/level1/level2/20171005_023903_13697660,20171005_023903_13697660
  4,/level1/level2/20171005_023905_33947650,20171005_023905_33947650
  5,/level1/level2/20171005_023906_11666112,20171005_023906_11666112
  6,/level1/level2/20171005_023908_49545338,20171005_023908_49545338
  7,/level1/level2/20171005_023911_18875126,20171005_023911_18875126
  8,/level1/level2/20171005_023913_36372644,20171005_023913_36372644
  9,/level1/level2/20171005_023915_3539570,20171005_023915_3539570

(no need for cat)
# 3  
Old 10-10-2017
Should those "spaces" occur in both the user menu and the log file, or, if not, in which of them?
# 4  
Old 10-11-2017
This will insert a TAB at the beginning.

Code:
cat  $mainfile  | xargs -i echo "\t{}" | tee -a  $logfile


Last edited by Scott; 10-11-2017 at 01:54 AM.. Reason: Code tags...
# 5  
Old 10-11-2017
Hi All,

Thank you for all your reply i tried all the solutions given here but not fruitful.
I ended up in while loop for this issue and it is working.

Thanks.
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