04-25-2005
Thank you for that quick answer.. I tried it out..
and I got the line number as-
linenum=`cat $ROOT/$1/$2 | grep -n "war of worlds:"|cut -d: -f1`;
echo $linenum;
linen=`expr $linenum + 1`;
echo $linen;
now what do i do with this line number.. i am stuck again.. "cat" doesnt have a option to read the file with specified line number.
Actually i want to change the line after this line, say -
war of worlds:
200,300,400
to
war of worlds:
100,200,300,400 => append a 100, to the begining of this line..
Pls show some more light
thank you !!
Boss
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NAME
elvfmt - adjust line-length for paragraphs of text
SYNOPSIS
elvfmt [-w width | -width] [-s] [-c] [-i chars] [-C] [-M] [file]...
VERSION
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elvfmt is a simple text formatter. It inserts or deletes newlines, as necessary, to make all lines in a paragraph be approximately the
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Use a line width of width characters instead of the default of 72 characters.
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-C and -M
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SEE ALSO
vi(1), elvis(1)
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