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Hi, I'm trying to append a block of text to the end of a series of text files arranged within a number of folders. The appended text also has to have some generic characters e.g., nnnnn that need to be substituted by the folder name.

I'm sure this is relatively simple to achieve in a script perhaps involving sed, but my experience is a bit limited, and I'm taking way too long at the moment!

W

this should work

where DIRROOT is the root directory containing the text files and TEXTBLOCKFILE is the file name of the
file you want to add to the end of each .txt file
you can pretty it up if you want to run the thing regularly.
as you can see, this just appends the contents of the TEXTBLOCKFILE to each file ending in .txt under the DIRROOT path

you would have to be more specific about the "generic characters" part of your request. but the following line would extract the directory in the above for loop

You could use sed to replace your generic characters:

[code]
sed 's/nnnnnnn/your text here/'
[code]

But like Timsoft said, we'll prolly need more information to really help If you've already started on something, perhaps you could post what you have so far?

-J

Ok, this is what I've tried so far, and it seems to work




2 more things..........
(a) I now need to strip out part of the filename,a numeric character after the word "test" in the filename, and sub that for y in text to append
(b) I need to spool through the input file, before appending to it, and find the last occurrence of a word from a look up list. When that occurs, I need to strip out the last numerical character from that line, and again sub for x in text to append. Can I use awk for that?

I guess I need to do these three amendments to the text to append before doing the appending..............