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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting New Line in File using Sed ?? Post 302088920 by Mary_xxx on Friday 15th of September 2006 05:48:46 AM
Old 09-15-2006
Inserting New Line in File using Sed ??
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
 

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