Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All,

I have a file called football where i have a list of 11 players each on different lines.
I wish to add a name of another player on the first line.
I have created a file called footballscript in vi writing the following sed command to achieve this ...

cat football | sed -e '1 i\ zidane' > newfootball

with newfootball the new output file

On the command line in UNIX i type sh footballscript to run the script but get the following error message;
sed: -e expression #1, char 5:Extra characters after command

Can ne1 point out my mistake or suggest an alternative sed code for this please?

Major thanks in advance

Mary

This works fine for me.

> more a1.txt
1
2
3
4
5
> cat a1.txt | sed -e '1 i\ newLine' > newa1
> more newa1
newLine
1
2
3
4
5

Please check if "-e" is the correct parameter for your sed

Its usually safer to put sed inserts command into a file and then invoke the sed script with option -f.

Hey,

thanks for the replies. YOu tried the same code as i had but it works for you not for me.

Realy dont what is wrong, all i get is that message;
sed: -e expression #1, char 5:Extra characters after command



Mary

Void the backslash to make sed happy:

Code:

cat football | sed -e '1 i zidane' > newfootball