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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting UNIX commands question Post 302938843 by MadeInGermany on Thursday 19th of March 2015 12:17:27 PM
Old 03-19-2015
i and a and c commands need multi-line (not possible in t/csh!), where the previous line ends with a \ character:
Code:
sed '/unix/ i\
Insert a new line
' file.txt

Code:
sed '/unix/ a\
Append a new line
' file.txt

Code:
sed '/unix/ c\
Change to line1\
and line2
' file.txt

They can as well be done by the s (substitute) command.
where the c (change) with a one-line replacement can be done in one line:
Code:
sed '/unix/ s/.*/Change line/' file.txt

To write the changes back to the input file, it is most safe to overwrite it (retaining the inode/owner/permissions):
Code:
sed '...' file.txt > file.txt.new && cp file.txt.new file.txt && rm file.txt.new

or
Code:
cp file.txt file.txt.old && sed '...' file.txt.old > file.txt && rm file.txt.old

 

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RDUP-UP(1)							       rdup								RDUP-UP(1)

NAME

       rdup-up - update a directory tree with a rdup archive

SYNOPSIS

       rdup-up [OPTION]...  DIRECTORY

DESCRIPTION

       With rdup-up you can update an (possibly) existing directory structure with a rdup archive.

       The rdup archive has to be given to rdup-up's standard input.

   Username and uids
       rdup  outputs  both  the  username  and	uid, the receiving system (which may be a totally different system) checks if the username and uid
       match. If the username and uid don't match the (numeric) uid is used on the file. The same holds true for the groupname and gid.

OPTIONS

       -n     Do a dry-run and do not create anything on disk.

       -t     Create DIRECTORY (ala mkdir -p) if it does not exist.

       -s N   Strip N path components from a pathname. If the resulting pathname is empty after this operation it is skipped. Be  careful  however
	      with the following structure:

		  /foo
		  /foo/bar
		  /foo/bar/bla.txt
		  /foo/blork/bla.txt

	      With rdup-up -s2 this will leave:

		  <empty>
		  <empty>
		  /bla.txt
		  /bla.txt

	      And the last 'bla.txt' will overwrite the previous one, this will happen without warnings.

       -r PATH
	      This option is related to the -s option, but works different. The string PATH is removed from (the beginning of) each pathname. With
	      -r /home/backup the pathname /home/backup/bin/mycmd becomes /bin/mycmd. The same could be done with -s 2, but then you need to count
	      the slashes. Note -s is always performed before -r.

       -v     Be more verbose and echo the processed files to standard output.

       -vv    Be even more verbose and echo processed file and the uid and gid information to standard output.

       -T     Show  a  table  of  contents of the rdup stream received (ala tar -tf -).  With -T the directory argument is optional. -T unsets any
	      verbose (-v) options.

       -h     A short help message.

       -V     Show the version.

EXIT CODE

       rdup-up return a zero exit code on success, otherwise 1 is returned.

AUTHOR

       Written by Miek Gieben.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <miek@miek.nl>.

SEE ALSO

       http:/www.miek.nl/projects/rdup/ is the main site of rdup. Also see rdup(1), rdup-tr(1) and rdup-backups(7).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Miek Gieben. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A	PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

       Licensed under the GPL version 3. See the file LICENSE in the source distribution of rdup.

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