This will do it for you:
sed 's/.*/z=z+&/' somefile
Here's how it works... the .* matches everything in each line. The &
represents what we searched for. For example, If you wanted to have ABC at the end of each line, you could do this:
sed 's/.*/&ABC/' somefile
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Support wrote:
> HI
>
> 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.
> 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
>
> thats it 1 simple column! Maybe I need some sleep it is 1 am here in
> Germany.
>
> Thanks for any help!
> (I know you are out there der hans) :)
>
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