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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed - insert two lines Post 302582913 by michaelrozar17 on Monday 19th of December 2011 03:13:02 AM
Old 12-19-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by locoroco
I have done this sed command to insert one line after a specific string is found:
Code:
sed '/patternstring/ a\
new line string' file1

But how do I insert two lines? This is not possible:

Code:
sed '/patternstring/ a\
 new line string \a
new line string 2' file1

Remove the 2nd append string 'a' and try..
Code:
sed '/patternstring/ a\
 new line string \
new line string 2' file1

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PASTE(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PASTE(1)

NAME
paste - paste multiple files together SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file... OPTIONS
-d Set delimiter used to separate columns to list. -s Print files sequentially, file k on line k. EXAMPLES
paste file1 file2 # Print file1 in col 1, file2 in col 2 paste -s f1 f2 # Print f1 on line 1 and f2 on line 2 paste -d : file1 file2 # Print the lines separated by a colon DESCRIPTION
Paste concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files and writes them to standard output. The lines of the different files are separated by the delimiters given with the option -s. If no list is given, a tab is substituted for every linefeed, except the last one. If end-of-file is hit on an input file, subsequent lines are empty. Suppose a set of k files each has one word per line. Then the paste output will have k columns, with the contents of file j in column j. If the -s flag is given, then the first file is on line 1, the second file on line 2, etc. In effect, -s turns the output sideways. If a list of delimiters is given, they are used in turn. The C escape sequences , , \, and are used for linefeed, tab, backslash, and the null string, respectively. PASTE(1)
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