Adding to the front of a line

[Ray Parrish]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>   
>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've downloaded a text file of the new sites to block to avoid the 
>>> conficker worm that is currently infecting Windows users, and would like 
>>> to send it to my Windows using friends and family. However the file 
>>> unfortunately has only the host names, one per line. I would like to add 
>>> the 127.0.0.1 and a space to the front of each line in the file before I 
>>> send it out, so all they have to do is copy and paste it's contents to 
>>> the end of their hosts files.
>>>       
>> There are many ways.  Here's one:
>>
>> while read site; do
>> echo "$site 127.0.0.1"
>> done < sites.txt > output_file.txt
>>     
>
> Whoops.  That was backwards.  It should be:
>
> while read site; do
> echo "127.0.0.1 $site "
> done < sites.txt > output_file.txt
>
>   
Hello again,

That *almost* worked perfectly, with the exception that it is adding a 
blank line between each line in the output file which is undesirable. 8-)

I'm off to the string handling section of my favorite bash scripting 
site to learn how to strip the line feed off of the end of $site at the 
start of the loop.

Thanks again for the excellent start, and tipping me off to how easy it 
is to read in files with a while loop. Here is what I've done so far to 
make the code more universally useful to me.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Add a text string to the front of each line in a file.
# Command line parameters $1 - file to read in $2 - string to add to 
front of line $3 - output filename
#
if [ $1 == "" ] || [ $2 == "" ] || [ $3 == "" ]
   then echo "Usage: AddStringtoLineFront.sh InputfileName StringToAdd 
OutPutFileName";
else
   while read site; do
   echo "$2 $site "
   done < $1 > $3
fi
exit

Later, Ray Parrish

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