Re: Sed command, Insert text in front of existing line

joe_at_invalid.address
Date: 08/21/03 

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:31:04 GMT

"Søren Bryndum Christiansen" <soren.bryndum.christiansen@ericsson.com> writes:

> can anyone help me out here? Looking for some sed command for the
> following:
>
> From my script I'm getting a log file, but I would like to insert
> some extra text in front of each line eg.
>
> Output
> Output2
> Output3
>
> <text> Output
> <text> Output2
> <text> Output3
>
> How can this be done in the easiest manner?

If I understand this right, I don't think you need sed. For example

while read line; do
  print text $line
done < file

Joe

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