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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed.. Add new line after finding text Post 58735 by zazzybob on Tuesday 30th of November 2004 05:48:12 PM
Old 11-30-2004
You could also use awk, which I find gives you a bit more control than sed in these situations
Code:
awk '{ if ( $0 ~ /searchstring/ ) {
          printf( "%s\n%s\n", "Some new inserted text here", $0 );
	  # could use the following to append
	  # printf( "%s\n%s\n", $0, "Some new appended text here" );
     } else {
          print $0;
     }
}' my_input_file

Cheers
ZB
 

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dxmcstextsetselection

DXmCSTextSetSelection(3X)												 DXmCSTextSetSelection(3X)

NAME

       DXmCSTextSetSelection  - Designates the specified text as the current primary selection by highlighting it in the compound string text wid-
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SYNOPSIS

       void DXmCSTextSetSelection(
	       Widget widget,
	       DXmCXTextPosition first,
	       DXmCXTextPosition last,
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PARAMETERS

       The identifier (widget ID) of the compound string text widget.  A value that represents the position of the first  character  in  the  text
       being  selected.   A  value that represents the position of the last character in the text being selected.  Specifies the time of the event
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DESCRIPTION

       The DXmCSTextSetSelection routine designates the specified text as the current primary selection by highlighting it in the compound  string
       text  widget.   Within  the text window, first marks the position of the first character in the text and last marks the last character. The
       field characters start at 0 and increase sequentially.

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															 DXmCSTextSetSelection(3X)
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