I need to know if anyone already has an awk or sed command that will add the '$' to the end of each record of a UNIX flat file. I want to write an MFD against a variable length comma separated file and it seems the easiest way is to append each record with a dollar sign.

Thanks,
Stan

Well, a simple sed script would be:

sed 's/$/\$/' filename >newfilename

Is this what you wanted?

TW

Hmm. That gave me an odd result with the dollar sign getting inserted at the beginning of the last line of each record. I'm thinking now that I may be able to get it with
awk '{print $0 "$"}' oldfile.dat > newfile.dat

Oops. My bad. Yours works fine. I'm just an idiot! Thanks and have a great day.
stan

LOL -- "beginning of the last line of each record"?

Think for a minute how that makes any sense.

Now, I think what's actually happening is that you probably have a fixed record length of 80 characters per line, and the $ is being put in position 81. The line wrap on your terminal makes it appear to be at the first character on a separate line.

So, with this assumption in mind, you want to "change" the last character to a $ instead of appending it.

sed 's/.$/\$/' filename >newfilename

TW

'Course, if this is to generate a flat file in comma-delimited format for WebFOCUS to read, you don't have to do this.

there is a mode called PCOMMA that lets you read standard, modern comma-delimited files.

Just issue

SET PCOMMA=ON

or override in a table as

ON TABLE SET PCOMMA ON

Cheers