Re: sed question

From	Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.shell
Subject	Re: sed question
Date	2011-08-20 15:47 +0300
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Am 20.08.2011 15:16, schrieb hsteenkamp@lycos.com:
> On Aug 20, 8:59 pm, Janis Papanagnou<janis_papanag...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Am 20.08.2011 14:51, schrieb hsteenk...@lycos.com:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>> OK, help me out. The general syntax is:
>>> $ sed 's/ [pattern] / [replace-string] / [flag]'  filename
>>
>>> So, it must be something like:
>>> $ sed 's/$/whatever/'  filename
>>
>> On my system the following does what you want...
>>
>> sed 's/.*/&\
>> &/'
>>
>> Janis
>
> Thx Janis. This works great on my system but each line is appended ...
> and not displayed twice.

This is why I said "on my system". Please make sure there's no blank
character behind the \ , then try the same on your system without the
final \ on the first line

sed 's/.*/&
&/'

Variants that may work on your system could also be one of

sed "s/.*/&$'\n'&/"
sed 's/.*/&\n&/'


Janis

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