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I want to create a script that insert 20 characters following each line in a text file.

Suppose the file contains the following lines:

text....

text....

text...

I want to obtain:

text....

------(20 symbols)

text....

------(20 symbols)

text...

------(20 symbols)

How to do this?

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answered 2 Years ago nquirewha · Accepted Answer

while read line

do

    echo "$line"

    echo "characters"

done < input > output

Where input is the source file and output is the destination file.

If you want to input and output to be the standard input and output respectively, then replace done < input > output with just done.