Adding Characters to a Word List

Shell Programming and Scripting
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If I had a word list with a large amount of words in it, how would I (using a unix command) add, say, 123 to the end of each word?

EDIT: The word list is stored in a large text file. I need a command that applies the ending to each word in the file and saves the result in a new text file.

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Something like

$ echo 'myword1 myword2 myword3' | sed 's/\([ ]\{0,1\}.[^ ]*\)/\1123/g'
myword1123 myword2123 myword3123
$

:confused:

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Another one:

echo a b c d | 
awk '$NF=$NF "123"' OFS="123 "
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Hmm thats great, but is there one command that would obtain text from a text file with the word list in it, apply the ending, then save a new text file?

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echo 'myword1 myword2 myword3' | sed 's/[^ ][^ ]*/&123/g'
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sed 's/\([ ]\{0,1\}.[^ ]*\)/\1123/g' wordlistfile > newfile
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awk '$NF=$NF "123"' OFS="123 " list > new_file
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Thanks Franklin52!

---------- Post updated at 01:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:35 PM ----------

Your code worked for a small list, but when trying a big list it put "123" on the next line, instead of attached to a word:

Word
123
Word
123
...

Instead of

Word123
Word123
...

Any thoughts?