Adding text in final line

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Dear Friends,
I have a flat file where last line of it has word D$mhtt
I want to add a space and back slash after it.
Also wanna add -S "J" in the last line.

Following example will make it clear.

I have this in the last line of file

D$mhtt

I want

D$mhtt \
-S "J"

Please help.
Thank you in advance
Anushree

2

A With sed :

sed '${s/$/ \\/;a\
-S "J"
;}' file

Jean-Pierre.

3

Dear Aigles,

I have this in the last line of file

D$mhtt

I want

D$mhtt \
-S "J"
Where as your script returned
D$mhtt
\
-S "J"

Please guide me.
Thank you

4

The command works fine for me.
On my AIX box with KSH :

gssjgu:/g/g00k00/gssjgu/TMP> cat input.txt
abcdefghij
D$mhtt
$ sed '${s/$/ \\/;a\
> -S "J"
> ;}' input.txt
abcdefghij
D$mhtt \
-S "J"
$

On my PC with Cygwin bash, the result is the same.

Are you sure that D$mht is on the last line ?
An empty line at the end of the input file will give the result you got.

Jean-Pierre.

5

Yes, I think its not the last line of the page. An enter character is present in the last

6 
sed '{
 s/D\$mhtt/D\$mhtt \\\
 -s \"J\"/g
 }'  FILENAME