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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SED - adding a new line after pattern Post 302211670 by zaxxon on Friday 4th of July 2008 03:52:40 AM
Old 07-04-2008
Used two lines of input to show what happens:
Code:
PAT="DOJ:20-Jun-2005"
sed '/$/a\'${PAT}'' infile

DOB:19-Apr-1981
DOJ:20-Jun-2005
DOB:20-Apr-1981
DOJ:20-Jun-2005

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