Sed Basics..

[EricTheRed]

Hi Guys,

I have an application that requires a data file to load and I must use sed to modify the file accordingly.

The problem is that each line in the config file is missing a comma at the end!

So I've tried

sed 's/$/,/' configLines

But for some reason this adds the comma at the start of the file. Well... last time I checked, '$' meant end of the line! right??

Let me know if there's another way to accomplish this or maybe my sed command is wrong.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[atreyu]

Hey,

Your code works fine for me.

# cat ./testfile.txt
a b c d e
1 2 3 4 5

# sed -i.bak 's/$/,/' ./testfile.txt

# cat ./testfile.txt
a b c d e,
1 2 3 4 5,

#

...can you post your configLines file if the problem is there?

[EricTheRed]

Okay thank you!!
So I figure it must be my datafile! I think its worth noting that I copied the file over from win 7 -> Linux so maybe its not valid because of this?

Interesting, I opened the file and the first record starts with 'ÿþ' whatever that is... I think the data must be corrupt.

[atreyu]

Maybe there are carriage returns in there, thanks to Windows?

You can see them with:

cat -v file.txt

If there, you will see ^M at the end of each line.
You can remove them with:

dos2unix file.txt