Re: SED help........

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:39:32AM -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need some help with SED. I'm trying  to insert a "command"/text at the 
> beginning of every line from one file and output to a new file like this:
> 
> sed 's/.*/clamscan -ri -l /var/log/clamav/clamav-"$1".log 
> --move=/var/log/clamav/quarantine &/ /var/log/clamav/diff/diff.txt > 
> /var/log/clamav/virus_scan

1. There is no 2nd ' (should it be after clamscan?)
2. s/.*/clamscan means (I think) that the whole line is replaced with the word
clamscan which is probably not what you want.

> 
> but sed givs me this error:
> sed: -e expression #1, char 23: Unknown option to 's'
> 
> I have also tried to use the insert command i\ but it just inserts the 
> text on a new line above each of the lines read from the file instead of 
> just inserting the text at the beginning of each of the lines red from 
> the file?
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
HTH
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