Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

My File 'temp.txt' contents are like this.

<Managers>
Mng={{FIL|FAVEI.mng|111}|15.000000|17.000000|17.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAPSV.mng|222}|3.000000|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVIF.mng|333}|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVGR.mng|444}|15.000000|15.000000|15.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAPST.mng|555}|3.000000|3.000000|3.000000|3.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVGO.mng|666}|13.000000|14.000000|14.000000|14.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FASOT.mng|777}|5.000000|5.000000|5.000000|5.000000}
Mng={{FIL|FAWSC.mng|888}|4.000000|4.000000|4.000000|4.000000}
</Managers>

Here I want to insert the line similar to other lines before </Managers> with
exactly similar number of columns. For example,

Mng={{FIL|FAPSA.mng|123}|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000}

nedds to be inserted using perl script.

Oops perl... already written in awk, nevertheless^^:

Code:

awk '/^\<\/Managers\>/ {print "Your line goes here!\n" $0; next}; {print}'  inputfile

<Managers>
Mng={{FIL|FAVEI.mng|111}|15.000000|17.000000|17.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAPSV.mng|222}|3.000000|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVIF.mng|333}|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|8.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVGR.mng|444}|15.000000|15.000000|15.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAPST.mng|555}|3.000000|3.000000|3.000000|3.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FAVGO.mng|666}|13.000000|14.000000|14.000000|14.000000|
Mng={{FIL|FASOT.mng|777}|5.000000|5.000000|5.000000|5.000000}
Mng={{FIL|FAWSC.mng|888}|4.000000|4.000000|4.000000|4.000000}
Your line goes here!
</Managers>

@zaxxon Shorter ?

Code:

# a='</Managers>'
# b='Mng={{FIL|FAPSA.mng|123}|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000|0.000000}'
# awk -v a=$a -v b=$b '{if($0==a) printf "%s\n%s\n",b,a ; else print}' file

That's not shorter, just the values are assigned to shell variables and fed to awk variables. I would call that more flexible but not shorter