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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert content of a file to another file at a line number which is given by third file Post 302982450 by RudiC on Thursday 29th of September 2016 06:05:50 AM
Old 09-29-2016
With a recent shell, try
Code:
sed "$(($(cat file3)-1))rfile2"  file1

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