[surfnschultz]

I want to take the input data and make it look like the output data

Input data:

710013
710014
710015


output data:

710013
close
710014
close
710015
close

So my questino how to insert a return and the test close?

Thanks for any and all help.

[Squashman]

I know there is a shorter way to do this, but I just couldn't figure it out, so this is what I came up with.

cat filename.txt | sed G | sed 's/^$/close/'

[surfnschultz]

That was the trick I was looking for!!!!! you rock man!