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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I insert a line in the middle of a file in BASH? Post 302244856 by phenom on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 09:32:26 PM
Old 10-08-2008
How do I insert a line in the middle of a file in BASH?

I have tried

sed '/6/a text_to_inserted' file > newfile

but this inserts test_to_insert at random places in file and i want it in specific location, which is line 6.


can anyone help....
 

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