asked on I need to insert a character at the beginning of every line in a txt doc
I need to insert a > character at the beginning of every line in a txt doc, how do I do this
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glenwdri
If you have excel, you can copy the text file to excel and paste. Move the entire selected column over a cell and then place what you want ahead of it in the first cell you have just left yourself. Copy the entire thing and past it back into a text document.
ASKER
this has to be done on about 200 files at a time and more than once hence the desire for sed to do it.
sed --in-place=.bak s/^/character/ filename.txt
If character is > then
sed --in-place=.bak 's/^/>/' filename.txt
Ir you can do it within find script for many files
fine /dir -type f -name "*.txt" -exec sed --in-place=.bak 's/^/>/' {} \;
sed --in-place=.bak 's/^/>/' filename.txt
Ir you can do it within find script for many files
fine /dir -type f -name "*.txt" -exec sed --in-place=.bak 's/^/>/' {} \;
find instead of fine (typo)
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ASKER
I found it myself