strange: sed and awk print at end instead of begin of line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi!
I have a strange behaviour from sed and awk, but I'm not sure, if I'm doing something wrong:

I have a list of words, where I want to add the following string at the end of each line:
\;\;\;\;0\;1

I try like this:

$ cat myfile | awk '{if ( $0 != "" ) print $0"\;\;\;\;0\;1"}'

Result: (it overwrites text at the beginning of the line)

;;;;0;1y
;;;;0;1hand
;;;;0;1occasion of
;;;;0;1other hand
;;;;0;1e
;;;;0;1ion

Same with sed ...

Am I doing something wrong? I use bash on Ubuntu 11.04.

Thanks for your help.
Regis

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See if this works for you:

sed 's#$#\\;\\;\\;\\;0\\;1#' File
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nawk 'NF{$0=$0 ";;;;0;1"}1' myFile
OR
sed '/..*/s#.*#&;;;;0;1#' myFile
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Thank you, for you replies. I learned a few things, but - it didn't help: still the same effect.
:confused:
I tried with

$ cat myfile | while read line ; do echo ${line}';;;;0;1' ; done

and even installed a different shell (ksh instead of bash) ... same effect.

I'll go to the office, and try on a different machine.

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If you are on Unix, ensure that your file does not have Windows end-of-line characters. The output of the command:

od -bc myfile

should not show any "\r" characters.

Try fixing the end-of-line character (as shown below) before running your awk script on the file.

dos2unix myfile
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It must be a problem with my Ubuntu-installation at home:
I tried in the office on a Redhat system: works as expected, no problem!

$ od -bc myfile does NOT show any \r in the output.
However, I'll give a try with dos2unix when I'm back at home.

Thank you for your help! I appreciate to learn from all these answers!

---------- Post updated at 06:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:50 AM ----------

On the office-Linux (Redhat), od -bc didn't show any \r ,
but at home, there where a lot of this characters.

$ dos2unix resolved this problem.

Thank you very much!

Kind regards - Regis