Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line

[Don Levey]

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Bill Bogstad wrote:
> 
> sed 's/^/./' -i file-to-change
> 
> will add a period to the beginning of every line in the file 'file-to-change'.
> 
> I'm not sure if the '-i' option is available on all systems.
> 
It is available on my system; looping through each file and executing
this line in my script does the job.  Thanks, Bill - and David, with an
alternate solution!

 -Don
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