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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Add text before and after matched string on the same line. Post 303044709 by RudiC on Monday 2nd of March 2020 06:36:31 AM
Old 03-02-2020
Try
Code:
awk -v"PRFX=<font color=yellow>" -v"SUFX=</font>" '{sub ("^.*/tmp/10203/cust/01$", PRFX "&" SUFX)} 1' file
....
<font color=yellow>drwxr-xr-x    4 user1   dba           20480 Feb 25 20:38 /tmp/10203/cust/01</font>
....
drwxr-xr-x    4 user1   dba           20480 Feb 25 20:38 /tmp/10203/cust/01/logs/mtr
....
drwxr-xr-x    4 user1   dba           20480 Feb 25 20:38 /tmp/10203/cust/03/src/files
drwxr-xr-x    4 user1   dba           20480 Feb 25 20:38 /tmp/10203/cust
 ....




EDIT: ... and your approach, adapted:

Code:
sed 's/^.*\/tmp\/10203\/cust\/01$/<font color=yellow>&<\/font>/' file

 

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