Quick sed ?

[pmcmicha]

I am trying to write a sed statement that will recognize the blank space at the beginning of a line and append a letter to this blank space. This is what I have so far....

sed s/^ /B

I thought that this would work, thanks in advance.

 

[CaKiwi]

Your script will replace a blank at the beginning of a line with the letter B. To append a B after 1 space at the beginning of a line use:

sed 's/^ / B/'

To apend a B after any number of spaces at the beginning of a line use:

sed 's/^\( *\)/\1B/'[code]

Hope this helps. CaKiwi