Append some text to a file multiple times

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I have a text file like
Version=abc
Tab=1
URL GOTO=www.abc.com/board=1
some text...

I want to run a loop x no of times and append to the text file above text but
URL GOTO should be www.abc.com/board=2 then 3,4...etc till x.
Kindly help

2

You may not have spaces in variable names like in URL GOTO. This will not work.

You can try out this:

COUNTER=1
MAX=10
URL_GOTO="www.abc.com/board="
OUTFILE=bla.txt

while (( $COUNTER <= $MAX )); do
        echo ${URL_GOTO}${COUNTER} >> $OUTFILE
        let COUNTER=$COUNTER+1
done
3 
$ cat test.file

Version=abc
Tab=1
URL GOTO=www.abc.com/board=1
some text...

for i in seq {1..100}
do  
   awk -v x=$i 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="="} /URL GOTO/ {$3=x}1' test.file >> OUTPUT.file
done