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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed for appending a line before a pattern and after another patter. Post 303000998 by Mannu2525 on Tuesday 25th of July 2017 02:56:55 AM
Old 07-25-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
This one tolerates one or more ( on two lines before the select
Code:
sed '
/^ *(/N
/^\( *(* *\n* *(* *\)\([sS][eE][lL][eE][cC][tT]\)/{
  s//\\o | grep org\
\1anyword \2/
  :L
  $!N
  /;/!bL
  a\
\\o
}
'

I am using the s (substitute) command for both insertions, because it can use the \( \) back references in the previous / /.

If I'm using below pattern, it will error out.

Code:
sed '
/^ *(/N
/^\( *(* *\n* *(* *\)\([sS][eE][lL][eE][cC][tT]\)/{
s//\\\o | grep \x27Send\\|Recv\\|Execute on\x27 | sed -e \x27s/^[ \\t]*//g\x27 -e \x27s/[|]*//g\x27  -e \x27s/[ \\t]*//g\x27 | cut -d\x27"\x27 -f2 | cut -d: -f1,2 | cut -d\\\\ -f1,2\
\1explain \2/
:L
$!N
/;/!bL
a\
\\o
}' filename.txt

 

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fc-pattern

FC-PATTERN(1)															     FC-PATTERN(1)

NAME

       fc-pattern - parse and show pattern

SYNOPSIS

       fc-pattern [ -cdVh ]  [ --config ]  [ --default ]  [  [ -f format ]  [ --format format ]  ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]

	[ pattern  [ element... ]   ]

DESCRIPTION

       fc-pattern  parses  pattern (empty pattern by default) and shows the parsed result.  If --config is given, config substitution is performed
       on the pattern before being displayed.  If --default is given, default substitution is performed on the pattern before being displayed.

       If any elements are specified, only those are printed.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is  included
       below.

       -c     Perform config substitution on pattern.

       -d     Perform default substitution on pattern.

       -f     Format output according to the format specifier format.

       -V     Show version of the program and exit.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       pattern
	      Parses and displays pattern (uses empty pattern by default).

       element
	      If set, the element property is displayed for parsed pattern.

SEE ALSO

       FcNameParse(3)  FcConfigSubstitute(3)  FcDefaultSubstitute(3)  FcPatternPrint(3)  FcPatternFormat(3)  fc-cat(1)	fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-
       match(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)

       The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.

								   Apr 20, 2010 						     FC-PATTERN(1)
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