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Old 04-14-2009
writing data in a text file at particular line
I need to write value of variable $version at a particular line in a text file.
Line number is determined by another variable &line......I don't know how to do it in shell script ...
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Old 04-14-2009
What do you have so far and where exactly are you stuck?

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-14-2009
do you mean something like this??
Code:
sed $line'{
a\
'$version'
}' filename

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