add text to end of line?

tatoosh · 07-29-2009, 07:08 AM

I had to do this:

i want to add a text of each line, but not when the word REJECTED is the last word in the line.

the text is (tab = user tabulator)
<tab> OK

i know i can add with 'sed' the text but how to check if the line ends with 'REJECTED' ?

joeBuffer · 07-29-2009, 07:30 AM

/REJECTED$/ will match a line ending with REJECTED, the dollar sign being the end of the line ...

jdkaye · 07-29-2009, 07:32 AM

This wouldn't be homework, would it?
jdk

centosboy · 07-29-2009, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tatoosh

I had to do this:

i want to add a text of each line, but not when the word REJECTED is the last word in the line.

the text is (tab = user tabulator)
<tab> OK

i know i can add with 'sed' the text but how to check if the line ends with 'REJECTED' ?

Code:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldstring$/newstring/g'  file

perl in line edit. .bak for saving orig file

pixellany · 07-29-2009, 07:39 AM

sed '/REJECTED$/!s/$/new ending/' filename > newfilename

pixellany · 07-29-2009, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

This wouldn't be homework, would it?
jdk

I guessed "no" because of posting history. Of course it could ALL be homework.......

tatoosh · 07-30-2009, 07:21 AM

thanks for helping. i used another way so solve my problem.

centosboy · 07-31-2009, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tatoosh

thanks for helping. i used another way so solve my problem.

share then...after all, you did ask for help..

tatoosh · 07-31-2009, 03:28 AM

i used not this way. anyway - here is my part of script for the question:
it cleans my postmap file - so i dont need the "reject" thing i asked for.

Code:

#clean up 
 sed -e 's/[ \t]*OK/ \tOK/' $1 > $temp_file
 mv $temp_file $1 -f 
 sed -e 's/[ \t]*OK[ ]/ \tOK/' $1 > $temp_file
 mv $temp_file $1 -f 
 sed -e 's/[ \t]*Ok/ \tOK/' $1 > $temp_file
 mv $temp_file $1 -f 
#lowercase <MAILLIST>
 cat $1 |  tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" > $temp_file
 mv $temp_file $1 -f