Re: Prepending characters to lines in file


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by wardk (Deacon)

on Aug 03, 2001 at 03:15 UTC ( [id://101837]=note: print w/replies, xml )

Need Help??

perl -i.bak -pe 's/$_/> $_/' filename
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could be one way

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Re: Re: Prepending characters to lines in file by chipmunk (Parson) on Aug 03, 2001 at 07:10 UTC
That will work as long as your lines don't contain regex metacharacters. :) You don't really need to match the line itself; just matching the beginning of the line works fine: `perl -pi.bak -e 's/^/> /' filename`	[reply] [d/l]

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