Quick question...

blasterpro · Jan 24, 2009

I have a list in a text file that has over 72,000 lines. I want insert {" before and "} after each line what is the quickest and easiest way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Arthas · Jan 24, 2009

i can code a script to do it for you. please pm me with offer.

4alllifestyles · Jan 24, 2009

In Linux Bash

Save the following in a file named myshellscript.sh

Code:

while read lineoftext
do
echo "beforetext" "$lineoftext" "aftertext" >>resultfile.txt
done

Then from the commandline execute the command with:

Code:

cat fileyouwanttoedit.txt | sh ./myshellscript.sh

When it finishes the resultfile.txt is your edited file and your original file is untouched just in case you typo'd and need to do it again.

Arthas · Jan 24, 2009

4alllifestyles said:
In Linux Bash

Save the following in a file named myshellscript.sh

Code:

while read lineoftext do echo "beforetext" "$lineoftext" "aftertext" >>resultfile.txt done

Then from the commandline execute the command with:

Code:

cat fileyouwanttoedit.txt | sh ./myshellscript.sh

When it finishes the resultfile.txt is your edited file and your original file is untouched just in case you typo'd and need to do it again.

you bastard

noidea · Jan 24, 2009

4alllifestyles great spirit in helping someone out in BHW this is what this forum is about

jinjangjoe · Jan 24, 2009

If you are not a freetard want to do it in Windows, save the following as a vbs file (say a.vbs).

Then from the command prompt run "cscript a.vbs {your file}". To redirect outpu another file: ""cscript a.vbs {your file} > {output file}"

Code:

Option Explicit
Dim oFSO, sFile, oFile, sText
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sFile = WScript.Arguments(0)
If oFSO.FileExists(sFile) Then
Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(sFile, 1)
 Do While Not oFile.AtEndOfStream
  sText = oFile.ReadLine
   If Trim(sText) <> "" Then
    WScript.Echo "{" & sText & "}"
   End If
 Loop
oFile.Close
Else
WScript.Echo "File not found."
End If

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