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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting add text in the middle of file Post 302176019 by relle on Monday 17th of March 2008 06:59:04 AM
Old 03-17-2008
add text in the middle of file

Can anyone help me pls? I want to add a text into the middle of file.
I've writtenthe following script

text to add="$1"
file="$2"
lines=$(wc -l $2)
half_lines=$(expr $lines / 2)
head -$half_lines $2 > temp
echo "text to add" >> temp
((half_lines=$half_lines + 1))
tail -$half_lines $2 >> temp
mv temp $2

it gives me `expr : syntax error

Can someone tell me what i did wrong. Was i not to use expr command?
 

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maxdb_stmt_errno - Returns the error code for the most recent statement call

       Procedural style

SYNOPSIS
int maxdb_stmt_errno (resource $stmt) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style int$maxdb_stmt->errno () For the statement specified by stmt, maxdb_stmt_errno(3) returns the error code for the most recently invoked statement function that can succeed or fail. Note For possible error codes see documentation of SQLDBC: http://maxdb.sap.com/documentation/. RETURN VALUES
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