Hey all, I am trying to add a string at the end of the line. and that line should start w/ /view/ so for exaple. if you have file and the line should read /view/hello/thankyou/file.bin /view/yes/red/blue.bin i wanted to add @@good.bin at end of the both line so it should read /view/hello/thankyou/file.bin@@good.bin /view/yes/red/blue.bin@@good.bin so basically anything start with /view should have @@good.bin at the end of the line. can someone help me w/ a script or anything. thanks a lot ~gpatel thanks, Gaurav

Implementing if statements in sed isn't a lot of fun. Here's an alternate way: #!/bin/ksh #!/bin/ksh while read line do [[ $line = "/view"* ]] && line="$line"@@good.bin echo "$line" done < data.file > newmyfile

thanks a lot nails thanks, Gaurav

if the lines above lines start like this how can i change the program File input =/view/hello/thankyou/file.bin@@good.bin File Input1 =/view/yes/red/blue.bin@@good.bin the program was writter to assume that line start w/ /view but the line start w/ File Input or anything else. how can i still use the program. like can i use something like line*/view* or something like that? thanks, GPATEL

Sorry I missed your later post. You want to flag any line that has /view in it? This should work: #!/bin/ksh while read line do [[ $line = *"/view"* ]] && line="$line"@@good.bin echo "$line" done < data.file