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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Grep string in a file and paste next line in a specific way Post 303021947 by RudiC on Tuesday 21st of August 2018 07:20:04 AM
Old 08-21-2018
Refine your spec if your requirements are not fulfilled. BTW, it's better to have a complete, detailed spec in the first place, so people can work off it.
Most non-GNU seds NEED the line break for text to be inserted. See man sed of your version.
 

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paste

PASTE(1)								FSF								  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info paste

       should give you access to the complete manual.

paste (coreutils) 4.5.3 					   February 2003							  PASTE(1)
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