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12-18-2007

dave123

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Add line under line help plse

Hello everyone, i hope someone can help me, i am a complete noob at bash so plse be gentle,
What i want to do is add a line under a line in a file, the file is xorg.conf and the line i would like to add is Option "SHMConfig" "on" under the line Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
what i have found is below but i dont know how to add the params line to find and add and file to edit

Quote:

#!/bin/sh
#usage
if test $# -lt 3; then
echo Usage $0 line_find line_add file1 file2 ...
exit 1
fi
#main code
echo Adding.. \"$2\" below \"$1\"
line=$1; add=$2
shift 2
for file; do
sed -i "s+$line+$line\n$add+g" $file
done
echo Complete.

Thankyou in advance if anyone can help me

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