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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed; insert text two lines above match Post 302960218 by cjcox on Thursday 12th of November 2015 10:32:47 AM
Old 11-12-2015
Do you have to use sed? Easily done with ed. This is an edit inline example (editing the file itself).

Code:
ed file.txt <<EOF
/^######SEPARATOR#####
-2
a
# v0006 - New text
.
wq
EOF

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