news@elaan.dds.nl wrote:

> Kruno <krunok@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> Here are a simple script:
>>
>> #!/bin/ksh
>>
>> cat file.txt | awk -F: {'print $1","}' > file1.txt
>>
>> Kruno
>>
>> "Tony" <zahst@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:fd6e5055.0410050626.2beee183@posting.google.c om...
>>> I'm try to format some files to use as input for a sqlplus command.
>>> The file is nothing but a list of numbers, one per line. I need to
>>> place a comma at the end of each line, but I'm not having any luck.
>>>
>>> My file looks something like this:
>>>
>>> 123456
>>> 112233
>>> 1789077
>>> 456786755
>>>
>>> The number could be of varying lenghts, but only one number per line.
>>> what I want is something like this:
>>>
>>> 1234566,
>>> 2343535544,
>>> 234678,
>
> This works, but classifies for the Useless Use of cat Award. Can
> do it with one process, and I think sed is somewhat faster than
> awk:
>
> sed -e 's/$/,/' file.txt > file1.txt
>
> HTH, Erik

Or, in ksh only:

while read line ; do
echo "$line,"
done < file >file1

Or, to make cat less useless:

#!/bin/ksh
cat $* |
while read line ; do
echo "$line,"
done

(script accepts arguments or stdin)


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