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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to add a numeric & special char to end of the first line Post 302985611 by MadeInGermany on Saturday 12th of November 2016 03:18:44 PM
Old 11-12-2016
Or more general (not needed here but useful in complex sed scripts)
Code:
sed -i '1s/$/'"$VAR"'/' file

Again the $var is in " " letting the shell expand it but not see+treat any special characters.
Of course the / delimiter in sed may not occur in the $var string, and no & character that is special in the replacement part of a sed substitution.
 

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set_color(1)							       fish							      set_color(1)

NAME

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set_color - set the terminal color
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