search from a file

[inderPunj]

Hi all

i want to create a script in which it will read a file and if in that file there would be any word DEV at he end of the line it will appand iii01at the end otherwise it will append aa01 at the end of the file.

cat dd.txt
jhdhjdfh5453_DEV
apple_DEV
linewithout123456
hello
hello_DEV

Please help.
Thanks,
Inder

[eggi]

Hey There,

You can probably do it taking up even less space than this, but this should do the trick for you

awk '{ if ( $NF ~ /DEV/ ) print $0 "iii01";else print $0 "aa01" }' dd.txt

Hope that helps

, Mike

[inderPunj]

Thanks Mike, it works for me..
Thanks you very much ..

[eggi]

Your very welcome. Glad to help

, Mike

[scm]

Another variant:

awk '/DEV$/ {print $0 "iii01"; next}
{print $0 "aa01"}' dd.txt