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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding a block to the file Post 302227110 by redoubtable on Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:06:47 PM
Old 08-20-2008
Code:
head -n 22 fileA >newfile
cat fileB >>newfile
tail -n 13 fileA >>newfile
mv newfile fileA

This is a very simple solution if fileA is exactly has you posted. Since you didn't request any pattern matching I figured this is an isolated case.
 

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mlib_realloc(3MLIB)					    mediaLib Library Functions					       mlib_realloc(3MLIB)

NAME
mlib_realloc - reallocate a block of bytes SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lmlib [ library... ] #include <mlib.h> void *mlib_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size); DESCRIPTION
The mlib_realloc() function changes the size of the block pointed to by ptr to size bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) block. This function is a wrapper of the standard C function realloc(). PARAMETERS
The function takes the following arguments: size New size of the block in bytes. ptr Pointer to a block. RETURN VALUES
The function returns a pointer to the reallocated block if successful. Otherwise it returns a null pointer. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mlib_free(3MLIB), mlib_malloc(3MLIB), malloc(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 9 Nov 2004 mlib_realloc(3MLIB)
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