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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert content of file before the first occurrence of a line starts with a pattern in another file Post 302982548 by migurus on Thursday 29th of September 2016 06:29:20 PM
Old 09-29-2016
Another approach is to use ed (I learnt it from Don C on this forum, thanks!)

Let's say I need to insert content of file f2 into file f1 before line starting with 3.

Code:
 
$ cat f1
1
2
3
$ cat f2
INSERT LINE
$ ed -s f1 <<-EOF > f3
> H
> /^3/-1r f2
> ,p
> Q
> EOF

This script says go to the beginning of the file (H),
then find first line starting with 3 (/^3)
then step one line up (-1)
then read in content of f2 (r f2)
then print out whole new content with (p), then quit (Q)

Result

Code:
 
$ cat f3
1
2
INSERT LINE
3

 

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IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream" - stream-based protocols using lines of text SYNOPSIS
Most likely this class will be subclassed to implement a particular network protocol. package Net::Async::HelloWorld; use strict; use warnings; use base qw( IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream ); sub on_read_line { my $self = shift; my ( $line ) = @_; if( $line =~ m/^HELLO (.*)/ ) { my $name = $1; $self->invoke_event( on_hello => $name ); } } sub send_hello { my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; $self->write_line( "HELLO $name" ); } This small example elides such details as error handling, which a real protocol implementation would be likely to contain. DESCRIPTION
EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters: on_read_line $line Invoked when a new complete line of input is received. PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": on_read_line => CODE CODE reference for the "on_read_line" event. METHODS
$lineprotocol->write_line( $text ) Writes a line of text to the transport stream. The text will have the end-of-line marker appended to it; $text should not end with it. AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::Protocol::LineStream(3pm)
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