Appending to end of a line using 'sed'
I have a line that says...
Fred Flintstone, Bedrock USA
and I want it to look like...
Fred Flintstone, Bedrock USA ***
How do I append a few * to the end of the line using sed command?
You can use this:
sed 's/$/ ***/' filename
If you want to search for a specific string before appending to a line (that is you don't want it appended to EVERY line like the above command) you can use the following, this finds Fred Flintstone anywhere in a line, put^ in front if you only want to match the beginning of the line.
sed '/Fred Flintstone/ s/$/ ***/' filename