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sed .. inserts newline and spaces... [message #133380]

Thu, 18 August 2005 15:39

sumakads
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2005
Location: Detroit USA

Junior Member

I am using a sed funtion as follows...

if [ $FILE_EXT = "txt" ]; then
AFILENAME="F"$FILENAME
sed '1i\
'$AFILENAME'\
' $FILENAME > $FNAME
rm $FILENAME
mv $FNAME $FILENAME

I basically need to insert the name of the file, as the first line of the same file, starting with F.

But the output i get, inserts the filename correctly, but has 3 spaces in front. also ther eis a newline after the first line is added, How do i avoid this. any help please.

Thanks..

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Re: sed .. inserts newline and spaces... [message #133496 is a reply to message #133380]

Fri, 19 August 2005 06:51

Frank Naude
Messages: 4596
Registered: April 1998

Senior Member

Do the following to see if the spaces are in your variables or not:

echo FILENAME=[$FILENAME]
echo AFILENAME=[$AFILENAME]

You can remove one newline by doing something like this:

sed '1i\
'$AFILENAME'' $FILENAME > $FNAME

Best regards.

Frank

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