[johngg@ovs276 perl]$ ls abc.txt def.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ head -99 * ==> abc.txt <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 ==> def.txt <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ perl -i.BAK -pe 'BEGIN { $\ = ",$ARGV[0]\n" } chomp' *.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ ls abc.txt abc.txt.BAK def.txt def.txt.BAK [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ head -99 * ==> abc.txt <== test text line 1,abc.txt test text line 2,abc.txt test text line 3,abc.txt ==> abc.txt.BAK <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 ==> def.txt <== test text line 1,abc.txt test text line 2,abc.txt test text line 3,abc.txt ==> def.txt.BAK <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ mv abc.txt.BAK abc.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ mv def.txt.BAK def.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ ls abc.txt def.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ head -99 * ==> abc.txt <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 ==> def.txt <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ perl -i.BAK -pe 's/$/,$ARGV/;' *.txt [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ ls abc.txt abc.txt.BAK def.txt def.txt.BAK [johngg@ovs276 perl]$ head -99 * ==> abc.txt <== test text line 1,abc.txt test text line 2,abc.txt test text line 3,abc.txt ==> abc.txt.BAK <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 ==> def.txt <== test text line 1,def.txt test text line 2,def.txt test text line 3,def.txt ==> def.txt.BAK <== test text line 1 test text line 2 test text line 3 [johngg@ovs276 perl]$