I need to add "A" to begnning of each word in wordlist, help! (plz)

[pwn3dsauce1]

I have a word list and I want to add an uppercase "A" to the beginning of each line.
example:

Before -

12345678
adamhick
bettysue
carlatoo

After -

A12345678
Aadamhick
Abettysue
Acarlatoo

an option for U/C and L/C would be cool. but only a bonus!

[lupin]

OK, basic Linux stuff. Something like this (untested so you may have to tweak)

awk '{print "A" $1}' wordlist.txt > newwordlist.txt

Change the A to lowercase if you want lowercase. You could also do this with sed, perl, ruby, python, etc.

[crweedon]

or ask a canadian!

[heimdal]

or ask a canadian!

Eh?




Edit: this is placed here because @#$%^VBulletin requires 13 characters minimum.

[lupin]

or ask a canadian!

Don't they add the "Eh" to the end of words?

[sprouty]

A SED example:

sed 's|^|A|g' ./wordlist.txt > newwordlist.txt

[pwn3dsauce1]

Not only are you guys hilarious at times (I didn't see that one coming, eh?), but you're all (mostly) really smart. I try to answer the newb questions, being a newb myself it feels good when I can, so it's really nice to get answers to my linux 101 questions. So thanks!


ps. I always google my problems for hours before deciding to make a post about it.

[lupin]

A SED example:

sed 's|^|A|g' ./wordlist.txt > newwordlist.txt

Dont forget you can also edit files in place with sed, using the -i option:

sed -i 's|^|A|g' ./wordlist.txt

[pwn3dsauce1]

Thanks Lupin and friends, it worked like a charm!

[sprouty]

Thank you Lupin. I didn't know that was possible (its going to safe me a lot of hassel )

Out of interest is there a switch for it in grep?

Many Thanks,

Sprouty