09-11-2008
Need assistance with appending strings using sed and variables
HI,
Can't seem to find anything on the forums to fix this.
I have a file, one line within this will not have a specific string at the end.
I have the string, but need to append it to the specific line which has it missing.
I need to use a variable for this, $string - I am using double quotes as below:
sed "/!*missing_string/a\ $string" file
Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
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NAME
checkbashisms - check for bashisms in /bin/sh scripts
SYNOPSIS
checkbashisms script ...
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DESCRIPTION
checkbashisms, based on one of the checks from the lintian system, performs basic checks on /bin/sh shell scripts for the possible presence
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