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hi all. the problem:

file contains a string like...

impossible mission

...now, that should be the impossible mission..

that means, I wanna make a string in front of the other strings but in the same line..

with vi it isn't a problem...easy.

but I wanna take the ed...

ed file
i
the
.
w
Q

didn't make it..because the content of the file is

the
impossible mission

but not "the impossible mission" ..just only one line.

so far and thx for any help...

perhaps by awk...the man page is too difficult

by the way, is there a chance to generate a automatic return/enter...like the system takes the return after a prompt, so that you haven't got to hit the button ?


so far..

Using ed, I think you'd have to do

Code:

ed file
s/impossible/the impossible/g
w
q

Or using sed

Code:

sed 's/impossible/the impossible/g' file > newfile

Cheers
ZB

thx. yes, of course that should work....

furthermore it was an example. my problem is that you shouldn't know the string "impossible"...it's unknown

I just only wanna read an input and write it into a file - no problem to solve..... - but then I wanna get a string in front of the whole string I've read and written in the file...that's the problem. and this should happen automatically. not with the vi.

a chance could be

ed file..then you've three possibilities a i c
a...append, i...insert, c...clear

but when you make i it takes the string above not in front of the string of the written file....

Ummm....so you to insert "the " in front of line one?

sed '1s/^/the /' < inputfile > outputfile

thx, it works perfect....

sed -e ´1s/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile

what now if I wanna get the string in front of all lines of the file?

in the man page you can find 1-2048 ..but you can't make

sed -e ´1-2048s/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile

only sed -e ´1s/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile or

sed -e ´2048s/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile

but not all lines....

also

for k=1 to 2048
do
sed -e ´ks/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile
done

isn't working because there's no "to".

could help {} ?

sed -e ´{1-2048}s/^/frontstring/´<infile >outfile