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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl search and append new line Post 302514860 by arvindng on Monday 18th of April 2011 09:54:02 AM
Old 04-18-2011
Perl search and append new line
Dear All,

I want search two lines and append some string in between these lines.

Input file
Code:
tmp,123
,10:123
tmp,666
,50:999
tmp,2:19800
5,3:21.
tmp,2:19800
55555555
tmp,2:19800
5,3:21.

Output should be
Code:
tmp,123
,10:123
tmp,666
,50:999
tmp,2:19800
appending 980000
5,3:21.
tmp,2:19800
55555555
tmp,2:19800
appending 980000
5,3:21.

was trying with following code but not working.
Code:
perl -p0e 's/(,2:19800\n5,3:)1/${1}\nappending 980000/g' input.txt


Thanks in advance
Last edited by radoulov; 04-18-2011 at 12:26 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
 

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