Re: Modifying many lines in many files

Hi Jeri!

On Fr, 24 Dez 2010, Jeri Raye wrote:

> I need to modify a many files, all in the same way.
> The modification is to
> - add one space-character at the beginning of every line.
> - delete the space-character at the end of every line.
>
> In other words:
> If the line looks like this:
> [start of line]12345 [end of line]
>
> It needs to become:
> [start of line] 12345[end of line]
>
> How to do that?

This sound like you want sed. For your use case, you probably want
something like:
sed -i 's/\(.*\) $/ \1/' files

> And I want to place this in a batch file (working on windows xp)?

Oh. On Windows, quoting might be the problem. I don't know much about
it. But with cygwin, it's straight forward.

regards,
Christian

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