sed add a character to the end of each line

keenboy · 08-05-2010, 11:21 AM

I am using the following command to add a comma to the end of each line in my file:

sed 's/$/,/' myfile

but for some reason the comma gets placed on a new line in between each line in the file.

Why is this?

colucix · 08-05-2010, 11:31 AM

That's really strange. Maybe there is some weird hidden character at the end of each line. Is this a file created in Win/DOS environment? Please, post the output of the following command (using CODE tags)

Code:

head -n1 myfile | od -c

this should tell us if there is something strange in the first line of the file.

ghostdog74 · 08-05-2010, 12:36 PM

Code:

dos2unix myfile
sed 's/$/,/' myfile