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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to insert a word into a text file? Post 302874335 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 14th of November 2013 08:15:36 PM
Old 11-14-2013
Below will replace the file in-place as requested. Note this is usually not recommended and most unix utilities require you to output to new file.

Code:
trap 'rm -f /tmp/$$_newcol; exit' EXIT 1 2 3 15
awk -v w="$2" -v f="$3" '{$f = w OFS $f}1' "$1" > /tmp/$$_newcol && mv /tmp/$$_newcol "$1"

This User Gave Thanks to Chubler_XL For This Post:
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sql::reservedwords::postgresql

SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL - Reserved SQL words by PostgreSQL

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved PostgreSQL word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by PostgreSQL.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 or 8.1.

       is_reserved_by_postgresql7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 7.3 or 7.4.

       is_reserved_by_postgresql8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either PostgreSQL 8.0 or 8.1.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with PostgreSQL versions that reserves $word.

       words
	   Returns a list with all reserved words.

EXPORTS

       Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

       is_reserved
       is_reserved_by_postgresql7
       is_reserved_by_postgresql8
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/>

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-28				       SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL(3pm)
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