Taylor Lewick wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have the following one liner which works great in a shell script.
> I have a comma delimited text file with the same number of rows.
> I want to add the date in YYYY-MM-DD format to every line...
>
> I was doing this..
> cat $file | awk '{print $0 "," "'$fdate'"}' >>$new_file
Useless use of cat:
awk '{print $0 "," "'$fdate'"}' $file >>$new_file
Or if you want to do it in perl:
perl -MPOSIX -nle'print$_.strftime",%Y-%m-%d",localtime' $file
>>$new_file
John
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