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Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line

Subject: Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line
From: lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:44:37 -0500
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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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- Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line
  - From: lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)
- Stupid shell stuff: prepending a character on each line
  - From: bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Bogstad)

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