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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Insert a line of text on nth line of a file Post 302967450 by RavinderSingh13 on Wednesday 24th of February 2016 12:48:03 AM
Old 02-24-2016
Hello gotamp,

As you are using SunOS, you could try following and let me know if this helps you.
Code:
cat script.ksh
awk 'FNR==13{print $0 ORS "CHUMMA";next} 1' Input_file > temp_file
mv temp_file Input_file

On a Solaris/SunOS system, change awkto /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk , or nawk.

NOTE: You could run above in a script like I have showed or up to you if you could use it as commands too(in case you wanted to do this for 1 or 2 files), don't forget to give proper permissions to script.ksh to run it properly. Also I haven't tested above script but it should work properly I believe.

Thanks,
R. Singh
 

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ctsmc

ctsmc(7D)							      Devices								 ctsmc(7D)

NAME

       ctsmc - System Management  Controller driver

DESCRIPTION

       The  ctsmc  system  management controller driver is a multithreaded, loadable, clonable STREAMS hardware driver that supports communication
       with the system management controller device on SUNW,NetraCT-410, SUNW,NetraCT-810 and SUNW,Netra-CP2300 platforms.

       The smc device provides a Keyboard Controller  Style (KCS) interface as described in the Intelligent  Platform Management Interface  (IPMI)
       Version 1.5 specification. The ctsmc driver enables user-land and  kernel-land clients to access services provided by smc hardware.

FILES

       /dev/ctsmc

	   ctsmc special character device

       /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ctsmc

	   64 bit ELF kernel driver

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcar.u 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

       STREAMS Programmers Guide

       Writing Device Drivers

       Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Version 1.5 - PICMIG, February, 2001

SunOS 5.11							    7 Dec 2003								 ctsmc(7D)
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