1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to insert a file called temp_impact (which has about 15 lines in it) to a file called 11.23cfg starting at line 33. I searched the forums and found the sed '34i\ test' 11.23cfg > newfile That will enter word test at the appropriate line, but i need the entire file dumped there. Any... (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I am trying to zgrep / grep list of files so that it displays only the matching filename:line number and does not display the whole line, like: (echo "1.txt";echo "2.txt") | xargs zgrep -no STRING If I use -o option, it displays the matching STRING and if not used, displays the... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Folks :), I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp. I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_ e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text: michal... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wrote a script to grep for a closing XML node. Then I need it to navigate up a line and insert some XML. Then go to the next occurrance. I have this INSERT_NODE='<QUANTITATIVE NAME="'${QR_NAME}'" QUANT="1" />' GREP_FOR='</JOB>' TMP_FILE=/tmp/lineArray.$$ if ]; then continue else ... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to insert the output of a script into a specific line number of a txt file. I've read the Sed man page and searched the forums and it's not immediately clear how I would go about doing this. (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am new to unix. I need to insert a variable which contains some lines of text into a text file after fixed number of lines.. Please help me on this.. Thanks in Advance, Amrutha (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to insert a line with text after the 9th line of a text file. How would I do this using sed or awk? (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a test file that I want to read and insert only certain lines into the the table based on a filter. 1. Rread the log file 12 Hours back Getdate() -12 Hours 2. Extract the following information on for lines that say "DUMP is complete" A. Date B. Database Name C.... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi All, I am using UNix Sun OS sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise My intention is to insert a line of text after 13th line of every file inside a particular directory. While trying to do it for a single file , i am using sed sed '3 i this is the 4th line' filename sed: command garbled: 3... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am trying to insert text at the beginning of every even number line with awk i can do it with odd number lines with this command awk 'NR%2{$0="some text "$0}1' filehow can i edit this command thanks (5 Replies)