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Originally posted by giannicello
Thanks for the suggestion so far. Turns out the file I'll be working with is a huge file with 1 mil rows that I need to add 20 more columns to the end of each row. The columns to be added are all the same info.
Yikes! Your original post was talking about 100 to 1000 lines. If you want to add the same string of characters to each of 1 million lines in a file, don't use vi. Try this:
sed 's/$/<new string of stuff goes here>/' < input > output