hello.,

i have a .txt file.

inside the .txt file i have.,

/home/ss/cca.costco.transaction_date
/home/sk/cca.costco.transaction_date
/home/st/cca.costco.transaction_date
/home/sv/cca.costco.transaction_date

cca.costco.transaction_date is the file name.
inside the file there are some 100 records.
there are 28 columns. each field is comma
delimited.

i have to add a 29th column in each record
in each file. once it adds a number
in all the records in that file next it has
to go to the next file and add the number in 29th
columns in the next file.

it has to do it for all the files in that .txt file.

say i have to add a number
123 in the 1st file, 135 in 2nd file so on


this is my business requirement.

can anyone help me in doing this

thanks

try this:

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for i in `cat a.txt`
do
echo "Insert the value you want to add as the last column to the file $i : "
read col
awk -v var=$col '{printf $0 FS var "\n"}' $i >$i.new
done
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bye,
ducasio