Change "<path>" value with different string depends on last line [closed]

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Change "<path>" value with different string depends on last line. In that case when see in the last line "*" to replace "<path>" with "ls -lrt" and to separate the "*" from the last line when see slash for anything else with "find".

Text file:

<path>/etc/inet.d/*.conf
<path>/etc/rc/*
<path>/etc/rc*

Expect View:

find /etc/inet.d/*.conf
ls -lrt /etc/rc/ *
ls -lrt /etc/rc*

Answer 1

I think you mean last character of each line, not last line!

if it is right, check this out:

awk '{if($0~/\*$/)sub(/<path>/,"ls -lrt ");else sub(/<path>/,"find ")}7' file

with your data:

kent$  echo "<path>/etc/inet.d/*.conf
<path>/etc/rc/*
<path>/etc/rc*"|awk '{if($0~/\*$/)sub(/<path>/,"ls -lrt ");else sub(/<path>/,"find ")}7' 
find /etc/inet.d/*.conf
ls -lrt /etc/rc/*
ls -lrt /etc/rc*