append a line

melanie_pfefer · October 30, 2008, 10:41am

Hi

I have a line in a file and want to append it with another word

for example

want to append it.siroe.com

any idea?

thx

joeyg · October 30, 2008, 10:45am

Are those entries the only things in either/both files?
Or, how will you be specifying the append string?

jim_mcnamara · October 30, 2008, 10:47am

sed 's/search dk.siroe.com/& it.siroe.com/' somefile > newfile 
mv newfile somefile

check the sed output first