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Mitch
Mitch

Reputation: 1644

Add spaces at the end of a line

Related: Add at the end of the line with sed

I looked at this question and tried all methods in the top answer; none of them worked. Every time when I try them and then open the file in Notepad++ it shows what I want to add (20 spaces) on a new line.

What I have:

word       word     number    [EOL]

What I want:

word       word     number                       [EOL]

What I end up with currently:

word       word     number    [EOL]
                  [EOL]

cat -vet shows the the line ends with 

 number          ^M$

The ^M doesn't print when using cat normally, so I'm guessing that's the issue.

So in short, how do I add spaces to the end of these lines programatically? I can use bash or powershell (would prefer bash).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 575

Answers (2)

Tim Zimmermann
Tim Zimmermann

Reputation: 6420

^M indicates that your file has DOS/Windows-style line endings. Run dos2unix to convert it and then run one of the commands to append to the line again.

Upvotes: 1

glenn jackman
glenn jackman

Reputation: 247210

Your file may have DOS-style CR-NL line endings. So, try this sed command that will remove a carriage return (if present) and add the 20 spaces:

sed 's/\r\?$/                    /'

Upvotes: 0

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