How to use text editors for text data munging

While I am great fond of both worlds (Windows and Unix) Shell scripting, as a PC end user I find it easier to work with some of the text editors to get rid of building the shell scripting syntaxes every time.   Here I ‘d like to share some cool ways which helps you achieve very common data munging tasks without you involving to write/understand any complex script/code lines.   Line Operations: Prefix and/or Append a given text to each line in a file Use Notepad2.exe > Edit > Block > “Modify Lines…” In the dialog box enter the text […]

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