Hey guys, how do we take a line of text as an argument from a user and then insert it in the middle of a file irrespective of the number of lines in the file. I am trying to do this without SED or AWK. Inserting it in the beginning and at the end is easy, but i am trying to accomplish inserting text in the middle?

One way - file has 10 lines

tht dint wrk as i am trying to do this using a script..im pasting the script

#!bin/bash

echo "Enter a line of text";
read text;

echo "Enter the file path to append to";
read path;

nfline=$(wc -l $path);
middle=$($nfline/2);


head -$middle $path > tmpfile;
$text >> tmpfile;
tail -$middle $path >> tmpfile;

mv tmpfile $path;

more $path;

wc -l filename

does not work because it returns the file name as well, so it cant be used in an expression.

there is a way