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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed; insert text two lines above match Post 302960455 by indo1144 on Monday 16th of November 2015 04:39:22 AM
Old 11-16-2015
Hi All!
Thanks for the replies! I'm afraid I wasn't clear enough in my initial example. I realized that when I received my first reply, but I wasn't able to reply anymore.

The separator is NOT the last line in the file, I want to automatically insert a line into an existing changelog, that is part of a script, which starts below the separator...
I would like to use the separator, because sometimes the comments in the changelog span multiple lines, so I can't look for the last v000x and append a new line below it.

Like so:

Code:
# v0004 - Some text
# v0005 - More text
# v0006 - New text
#
######SEPARATOR#####
Script start here...

---------- Post updated at 10:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:33 AM ----------

Never mind. RudiC's piece of code, even though it's completely incomprehensible, does the job!
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

dh_installchangelogs

DH_INSTALLCHANGELOGS(1) 					     Debhelper						   DH_INSTALLCHANGELOGS(1)

NAME

       dh_installchangelogs - install changelogs into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installchangelogs [debhelperoptions] [-k] [-Xitem] [upstream]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installchangelogs is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing changelogs into package build directories.

       An upstream changelog file may be specified as an option.

       If there is an upstream changelog file, it will be installed as usr/share/doc/package/changelog in the package build directory.

       If the upstream changelog is an html file (determined by file extension), it will be installed as usr/share/doc/package/changelog.html
       instead. If the html changelog is converted to plain text, that variant can be specified as a second upstream changelog file. When no plain
       text variant is specified, a short usr/share/doc/package/changelog is generated, pointing readers at the html changelog file.

FILES

       debian/changelog
       debian/NEWS
       debian/package.changelog
       debian/package.NEWS
	   Automatically installed into usr/share/doc/package/ in the package build directory.

	   Use the package specific name if package needs a different NEWS or changelog file.

	   The changelog file is installed with a name of changelog for native packages, and changelog.Debian for non-native packages.	The NEWS
	   file is always installed with a name of NEWS.Debian.

OPTIONS

       -k, --keep
	   Keep the original name of the upstream changelog. This will be accomplished by installing the upstream changelog as changelog, and
	   making a symlink from that to the original name of the changelog file. This can be useful if the upstream changelog has an unusual
	   name, or if other documentation in the package refers to the changelog file.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude upstream changelog files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       upstream
	   Install this file as the upstream changelog.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2							    2018-05-10						   DH_INSTALLCHANGELOGS(1)
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