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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed query Post 302098949 by grinder182533 on Thursday 7th of December 2006 12:58:42 PM
Old 12-07-2006
sed query
I have a series of folders /temp/a /temp/b /temp/c

In folders a, b, and c, I have files
a1.txt..........a20.txt
b1.txt..........b40.txt &
c1.txt..........c60.txt

Each file has the same data format :-

Line 1 AAAAA aaaa
Line 2 BBB bbbbbb
Line 3 CCCC cccccc
Etc etc

I need to write a sed script which will go through all the files and reformat the data thus :-

Line 1 AAAAA aaaa
Line 2 BBB
Line 3 X bbbbbb
Line 4 CCCC cccccc
Etc etc

So I need to insert a CR/LF in line 2 position 4,
create a new Line 3 with a constant text (X) and the value of what was to the right of the previous Line 2 (bbbbbb)
and move the remaining lines one line down.

Can anyone help please ?
I don't know sed very well, and awk not at all.
 

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Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)

NAME

       Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line - Model to represent a line in a feature file

VERSION

       version 0.11

DESCRIPTION

       Model to represent a line in a feature file

ATTRIBUTES

   number
       The line number this line represents

   document
       The Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Document object this line belongs to.

   raw_content
       The content of the line, unmodified

METHODS

   indent
       Returns the number of preceding spaces before content on a line

   content
       Returns the line's content, with the indentation stripped

   content_remove_indentation
       Accepts an int of number of spaces, and returns the content with exactly that many preceding spaces removed.

   debug_summary
       Returns a string with the filename and line number

   filename
       Returns either the filename, or the string "[String]" if the document was loaded from a string

   is_blank
   is_comment
       Return true if the line is either blank, or is a comment.

AUTHOR

       Peter Sergeant "pete@clueball.com"

LICENSE

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