hi david, the more "traditional" way would have been to use sed as follows:
sed -i.bak s/^/./g porndomain.cal side-effect is to generate a backup file with the .bak extension. xen On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM, david t. asuncion, jr.<[email protected]> wrote: > A total CLI newbie here. :) > > I have a file like this... > > cat porndomain.acl > > sex.com > blahblah.com > weak.com > .... > > What I want to happen is to add a "." on each line to look like this... > > .sex.com > .blahblah.com > .weak.com > > How can I do that with one line of command in Linux? > > -- > David Tacasa Asuncion, Jr. > website keeper, forever linux newbie, BUM extraordinaire > > Linux User # 406430 > http://counter.li.org/ > > GPG: 0A024BC0 > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- eric pareja ([email protected]) LPIC-2 | PGP/GPG Key 0xB82E42D9 Coordinator for Technology / Senior Linux Trainer National Telehealth Center, University of the Philippines Manila International Open Source Network - ASEAN+3 "Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay." わかよたれぞ つねならむ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
