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04-12-2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cgkmal

Hi Dendany83,

Another option if the text you want to replace always contains 2 lines:

Code:

cat inputfile
begin this is
this is ...................
that is.................
begin this is
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
text1="Device          |            IPMB0-A              |             IPMB0-B"
text2="Board      Address      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr"
 
sed "s/^begin.*/$text1\n$text2/" inputfile
Device          |            IPMB0-A              |             IPMB0-B
Board      Address      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr
this is ...................
that is.................
Device          |            IPMB0-A              |             IPMB0-B
Board      Address      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr

Hope this helps,

Regards

It is giving an error:

Code:

Label too long: text1="        Device          |             IPMB0-A              |             IPMB0-B              "

Code:

#!/bin/sed -f

text1="        Device          |             IPMB0-A              |             IPMB0-B              "
text2="Board      Address      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr      |Sent      SentErr      %Errr      "
text3="=============================================================================================="

s/^$/$text1\n$text2\n$text3/ 2.log

where 2.log is:

Code:

                                                                                            
           9a            60        36           60.0       60        0            0.0
           96            60        35           58.3       55        0            0.0
           92            60        60           100.0      60        60           100.0
           8e            60        35           58.3       60        0            0.0
                                                                                             
           9a            60        19           31.6       60        0            0.0
           96            60        20           33.3       54        0            0.0
           92            60        60           100.0      60        60           100.0
           8e            60        20           33.3       60        0            0.0

The idea is that i want to add this header in place of each blank line.

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