Re: using sed to add text to csv file

something like

sed '
s|^|firstname=|;
s|,|\&lastname=|;
s|,|\&address=|;
...
'

The ^ sign means beginnning of line.

to change a comma into ampersand, you will have to quote it, otherwise 
it means 'entire search string'

The part of inserting headername= I don't understand.
What value do you want for headername? Or do you want just an empty 
headername
headername=&firstname=....



On 04/05/12 15:44, Gary Carr wrote:
> Hello to all. This is my first post to this mailing list.
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> I have a CSV file with thousands of lines that is laid out like such.
>
> First,Last,Address,City,St,Zip,email,phone,dob,optindate,ipaddress,url
> Joey,Smith,12036 Address Lane,Beverly Hills,CA,90210,[email protected],2484865073,02/08/1962,4/2/2008 19:04:20,192.69.141.22,http://www.url.com/
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> I am trying to add text to the beginning of each table then change each line to the following
>
>
> firstname=Joey&lastname=Smith&address=12036 Address Lane&
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> So basicallly I am trying to add the "headername=" text to the beginning of each row then replace the , with a&  I know how to replace the comma I just can not figure out how to add the header text to the beginning of each line.
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
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