Adding test to beginning and end of list in a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all and apologies for the silly question, but I've searched and I can't get this right.

I have a list of email addresses in a file that I need to blacklist (spam). the list is quite long and I would need to script a small routine so that I can get the following for each line in the file:

db spamassassin setprop wbl.global bademail@mail.com Black

So basically the bademail@mail.com is the variable and the rest needs to be added to each line in the file...

Thank you in advance and best to all
gio

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Hello bm555,

Welcome to forums, hope you will enjoy learning/sharing knowledge here :b:. Request you to please show us the sample input(you could leave the sensitive data but show us near to it a test data) with expected output so that we could help you in same. Also please don't forget to user code tags for commands/codes/Inputs used in your code as per forum rules.

Thanks,
R. Singh

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Hi and thanks for the reply..the input file is like this:

*@netzero.com
*@tijuana.mxwh.net
*@livegamesworld.com
*@iemailbox.com
steve2v@hotmail.com
helenaljufri@yahoo.com.au
aengelberg@nglbrg.com
msteeinfo@excite.com
DelayedReturn@ato.gov.au
oreartonishaybl@outlook.com

to each line I'd like to append db spam assassin setprop wbl.global at the beginning and Black at the end of each line, so that the result is:

db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl@outlook.com Black

thanks again

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Hello bm555,

Thank you for showing the sample input, please put coda tags for sample Inputs(email ids in this case). Following may help you in same.

awk '{print "db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl " $0 " Black"}'  Input_file

Output will be as follows.

db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl *@netzero.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl *@tijuana.mxwh.net Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl *@livegamesworld.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl *@iemailbox.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl steve2v@hotmail.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl helenaljufri@yahoo.com.au Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl aengelberg@nglbrg.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl msteeinfo@excite.com Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl DelayedReturn@ato.gov.au Black
db spamassassin setprop wbl.global oreartonishaybl oreartonishaybl@outlook.com Black

Also on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk , /usr/xpg6/bin/awk , or nawk .

Thanks,
R. Singh

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Thank you! it worked just fine...appreciate the help indeed!!