On Apr 21, 12:59am, Support wrote: > Any sed gurus on the list? I use it often in a class I am taking but I > am stuck on this one and have had no luck with the docs I have found. Which docs are you reading? > What I need to do is append 'z=z+' to the beginning of every line in a > file. > > The file looks like this: > > 1234960 > 1456780 > 3456567 > 5476865 > 456098 If you want to prepend 'z=z+' to the beginning of every line, then the following sed command will do it: sed -e 's/^/z=z+/' infile >outfile Kevin