[bash help]Adding multiple lines of text into a specific spot into a text file Post: 302401413

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

adding text to a file between lines

Suppose content of my first file: first line second line third line How can i insert text between "first line" & "second Iline" Any help?????/

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding specific text and spaces to each line in a text file

Hi, I wanted to add specific text to each row in a text file containing three rows. Example: 0 8 7 6 5 5 7 8 9 0 7 9 7 8 9 0 1 2 And I want to add a 21 at the beginning of the first row, and blank spaces at the beginning of the second two rows. To get this: 21 0 8 7 6 5 5 7 8...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding text to file on certain lines with(special characters)

I need to add "new lines" of text with special characters, to specific lines in the file. There are 3 modifications needed. Been testing 2 here without success. #!/usr/bin/perl use FileHandle; $file=FileHandle->new; $FILENAME="/opt/etc/usr/file.txt"; $file->open ("<$FILENAME") or die...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to Insert values in multiple lines(records) within a pipe delimited text file in specific cols

this is Korn shell unix. The scenario is I have a pipe delimited text file which needs to be customized. say for example,I have a pipe delimited text file with 15 columns(| delimited) and 200 rows. currently the 11th and 12th column has null values for all the records(there are other null columns...

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Adding tags to a specific column of a space delimited text file

I have a space delimited text file with two columns. I would like to add NA to the first column of the text file. Input: 19625 10.4791768259 19700 10.8146489183 19701 10.9084026759 19702 10.9861346978 19703 10.9304364984 Output: NA19625 10.4791768259 NA19700 10.8146489183...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to grep multiple lines from a text file using another text file?

I would like to use grep to select multiple lines from a text file using a single-column text file. Basically I want to only select lines from the first text file where the second column of the first text file matches the second text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding text to the end of the specific line in a file(only to the first occurrence of it)

Hi, I want to add a text to the end of the specific line in a file. Now my file looks like this: 999 111 222 333 111 444 I want to add the string " 555" to the end of the first line contaning 111. Moreover, I want to insert a newline after this line containg the "000" string. The...

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

About adding users from a text file using bash

hello, I try to add users from a text file with this form: username:groupename:homedir first i extract data which is separated by ":" then i use useradd to add users/groups. but,,, my code doesn't works : #!/bin/bash echo "give me a text file: " read dir # control if...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Printing multiple lines on the same line between specific text

This is an extract from a large file. The lines that start with fc are ports on a fabric switch. In between each fc port there is information about the port. fc2/12 is up Port description is SEIEDISCOVER-3 Speed is 4 Gbps fc2/13 is down (Administratively down) fc2/14 is up Port...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Match text to lines in a file, iterate backwards until text or text substring matches, print to file

hi all, trying this using shell/bash with sed/awk/grep I have two files, one containing one column, the other containing multiple columns (comma delimited). file1.txt abc12345 def12345 ghi54321 ... file2.txt abc1,text1,texta abc,text2,textb def123,text3,textc gh,text4,textd...

LEARN ABOUT SUSE

tld_strerror

tld_strerror(3) 						      libidn							   tld_strerror(3)

NAME

       tld_strerror - return string describing tld error code

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tld.h>

       const char * tld_strerror(Tld_rc rc);

ARGUMENTS

       Tld_rc rc   tld return code

DESCRIPTION

       Convert a return code integer to a text string.	This string can be used to output a diagnostic message to the user.

TLD_SUCCESS
       Successful operation.  This value is guaranteed to always be zero, the remaining ones are only guaranteed to hold non-zero values, for log-
       ical comparison purposes.

TLD_INVALID
       Invalid character found.

TLD_NODATA
       No input data was provided.

TLD_MALLOC_ERROR
       Error during memory allocation.

TLD_ICONV_ERROR
       Error during iconv string conversion.

TLD_NO_TLD
       No top-level domain found in domain string.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns a pointer to a statically allocated string containing a description of the error with the return code rc.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to  <bug-libidn@gnu.org>.   GNU  Libidn  home  page:  http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/  General  help  using  GNU  software:
       http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Simon Josefsson.
       Copying	and  distribution  of  this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
       notice and this notice are preserved.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for libidn is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and libidn programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info libidn

       should give you access to the complete manual.

libidn								       1.15							   tld_strerror(3)