06-28-2007
add a string in the middle of the file
i want to add a string in a very top of a file without using VI or SED or AWK
this is what ive done:
(echo '0a'; echo 'LINE OF TEXT'; echo '.'; echo 'wq') | ed -s myfile
to add astrng right in the middle i could have count the lines of the file and just chenge the address.
EG. if file has 6 lines of text:
(echo '3a'; etc...etc...etc...)
Is there a method to do it where i do not need to know how many lines has a file, the script would add it straight in the middle?
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NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
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For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
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o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
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example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
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ATTRIBUTES
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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SEE ALSO
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