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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed insert new line does not update file Post 302802207 by peuceul on Friday 3rd of May 2013 06:18:53 AM
Old 05-03-2013
sed insert new line does not update file

Hi all,

I have a file called "text.cpp" with the first line of "1"
afterwards I tried in Ubuntu to type the following

sed '12iasdasdasdasdsad' test.cpp > output.txt

however when I tried to see the result of output.txt

#cat output.txt
1


why is the line 12 is not updated to the new output.txt? Smilie


thank you
 

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NAME
mpi_kmeans - K-Means clustering tool SYNOPSIS
mpi_kmeans [options] DESCRIPTION
mpi_kmeans is a program that uses k-means clustering to produce a list of cluster centers. The resulting data can be used by mpi_assign(1) to assign points to those cluster centers. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. Generic Options: --help Produce help message Input/Output Options: --data file Training file, one datum per line (default: "data.txt") --output file Output file, one cluster center per line (default: "output.txt") K-Means Options: --k num Number of clusters to generate (default: 100) --restarts num Number of k-means restarts (default: 0 = single run) --maxiter num Maximum number of k-means iterations (default: 0 = infinity) EXAMPLES
mpi_kmeans --k 2 --data example.txt --output clusters.txt SEE ALSO
mpi_assign(1) AUTHOR
mpi_kmeans was written by Peter Gehler <peter.gehler@tuebingen.mpg.de>. This manual page was written by Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). April 11, 2011 MPI_KMEANS(1)
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