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Using sed to add characters

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Hi, I have to add the characters "//#" to the beginning of each line in a file. My shell is the Korn shell. I am trying to do sed s/^///#/ abc > a But this did not work. So i tried sed s/^/\/\/#/ abc > a But this did not work either. I even tried enclosing it with double-quotes. Any ideas how to do this? -Anukta

Name: jimbo
Date: September 19, 2002 at 06:52:51 Pacific

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Change your delimeters to something like this: sed 's?^?//#?' file > outfile -jim

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Worked like a dream !! Thanks a lot. -Anukta

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