UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All,
I have a file in which data is as follows

Code:

ABCDE,FGHIJ
KLMNO,PQRST
UVWXY,ZABCD

Ok Now I want to append 400,CurrentDate,Status to each of the line.
Status will be inputted by the user.

Output should look like this

Code:

ABCDE,FGHIJ400200611active
KLMNO,PQRST400200611active
UVWXY,ZABCD400200611active

Kindly help me fast.

what you tried so far ?

refer sed or awk commands

I have tried Sed/Awk commands but unable to do it.

Code:

awk 'ORS=NR%1?RS:","' RS="\n" outFile.txt >> outputFile.txt

But not working. I am totally new to UNIX.
Kindly show me the way please.

can you tell me, what it is exactly doing and why you tried in this way ?

Code:

 
awk 'ORS=NR%1?RS:","' RS="\n" outFile.txt >> outputFile.txt

1) read the input (status) from user
2) Find out in which line you need to append the "400,CurrentDate,status"
3) once you found the line, append it (using sed or use awk to print in the end of the line and redirct the output to another file)

Actually I wrote the data in another temporary file and then clubbed all rows into one. Now I am writing the data present in this file to append the lines in another file.

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Hey I have tried this
Can u tell me whats wrong in this??

#
# sed command file
# append the line 'containing 101010'
# in this input file
#
/101010/a\
400Active
save this script as 400txn.cmd

#This is write in the original script.
sed -f 400txn.cmd customer.txt

To append the value at last

Code:

 
bash-3.00$ echo "test" | sed 's/$/abc/'
testabc

pattern match and append

Code:

 
 
bash-3.00$ echo "test
> abc
> edf"
test
abc
edf

bash-3.00$ echo "test
abc
edf" | sed ' /abc/ s/$/xyz/'
test
abcxyz
edf

Thank you!!