RE: Unix question

From: Nelson Flores <nflores_at_expand.cl>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:57:39 -0800
Message-ID: <007e01c405ac$32088730$cce8cd18@neltox>

You cannot ...i least I think you can't ... you see, sed parses each line independently once and only once, looking for certain patterns .. this is what makes it so fast... so I believe that "the last line" is an unknown entity to sed pattern recognizer (pun intended). (If I'm wrong please correct me - it's been a while :S) I would recommend editing it with VI (as shown below) or using AWK or Perl.
Or .. you could always apply quotes to all the lines, and then edit out the last one :P
In VI

:%s/^/\'/g
]]x

HTH
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Hi,

I want to put a single quote before each line except last line Using sed filter .
I want this in a single expression.
How can I achieve the desired o/p.

Thanks
Manoj

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