Hi,
I want to grep a word say "fan" from a file and redirect those lines in a file with "#" before them.
eg
all
fan is on
i am you
you are me
i am on fan
Expected o/p
#fan is on
#i am on fan
Hi,
I want to grep a word say "fan" from a file and redirect those lines in a file with "#" before them.
eg
all
fan is on
i am you
you are me
i am on fan
Expected o/p
#fan is on
#i am on fan
sed -n '/fan/s/^/#/p' origfile > newfile
With awk...
awk '/fan/{$0="#"$0;print}' file