Append something to end of string using string substitution in vim

Asked Sep 29 '17 at 06:49

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I have a file abc.txt which contains text like that:

ABC01
ABC02
DEF09
EFG92

I want to append 'I' to end of every line in the file. I am opening the file in vim editor and using the following command:

:%s/\n/I\n/g

But I am not getting the desired result.

When I used:

%s/$/I/g

I got what I wanted .

I am curious to know why the first method failed.

edited Sep 29 '17 at 06:50

melpomene

asked Sep 29 '17 at 06:49

Bhawan

For silly reasons you need to use `I\r` in the replacement part. – melpomene Sep 29 '17 at 06:51
@BhawandeepSingla Try this `sed -ri 's/$/I/g' /path/to/file.txt` – Sahil Gulati Sep 29 '17 at 06:58
I have tried it already and is working. I was curious to know why the first one was not working. – Bhawan Sep 29 '17 at 06:59

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