09-16-2005
Find and add
Hi,
I have a file with multiple lines starting with word 'newuser'. I want to go to the last line starting with 'newuser' and add another line starting with 'newuser' followed by 10 spaces and then words entered by the user. I using the following command but it does not seem to work.
sed '/*\/^newuser/ a\
newuser '$user' $file > $file.new
Thanks.
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