tail -f /dev/null » substitute http://tfdn.radiofreeomaha.net Tips, notes, HOWTOs Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:13:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Add A Comma To The End Of A Line http://tfdn.radiofreeomaha.net/2009/01/add-a-comma-to-the-end-of-a-line/ http://tfdn.radiofreeomaha.net/2009/01/add-a-comma-to-the-end-of-a-line/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:59:49 +0000 Uncle Jubba http://tfdn.radiofreeomaha.net/?p=66 I work with long lists and WinSQL a lot.  I always find myself wishing these long lists had commas at the end for pasting into a SQL where clause using “IN” for the list.  This can be accomplished in one of two ways.

From the command line:

sed "s/$/,/g" <FILENAME>

I usually pipe the output there to a new file.

In vi (from command mode):

:%s/$/,/g

The “%” says to perfom the substitution on the whole file.  In both cases we are doing a substitution of “$” (the end of the line) with a “,”.

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