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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert rows based on line numbers Post 302415721 by panyam on Friday 23rd of April 2010 07:45:34 AM
Old 04-23-2010
If you want to pass explicitly the line numbers and the values to print

Code:
 
awk -v va1=4 -v pr1="X" -v pr2="Y" 'NR == va1 {print pr1"\n"pr2} {print }' input_file.txt

 

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menu_format(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions					      menu_format(3CURSES)

NAME
menu_format, set_menu_format - set and get maximum numbers of rows and columns in menus SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lmenu -lcurses [ library... ] #include <menu.h> int set_menu_format(MENU *menu, int rows, int cols); void menu_format(MENU *menu, int *rows, int *cols); DESCRIPTION
set_menu_format() sets the maximum number of rows and columns of items that may be displayed at one time on a menu. If the menu contains more items than can be displayed at once, the menu will be scrollable. menu_format() returns the maximum number of rows and columns that may be displayed at one time on menu. rows and cols are pointers to the variables used to return these values. RETURN VALUES
set_menu_format() returns one of the following: E_OK The routine returned successfully. E_SYSTEM_ERROR System error. E_BAD_ARGUMENT An incorrect argument was passed to the routine. E_POSTED The menu is already posted. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curses(3CURSES), menus(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header <menu.h> automatically includes the headers <eti.h> and <curses.h>. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 menu_format(3CURSES)
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