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linenumber=16
sed "${linenumber}s/$/sometext/" file
will append sometext to line 16 of file.

EDIT: If you want to edit the file inplace then check if your sed supports -i. If not then you'll...

You can do it with sed. i.e.

sed "16i\
newline goes here
" /etc/sudoers


EDIT: -i (if the option is available) will overwrite the original file. Always take a backup first!
EDIT 2: LOL...

Not knowing what shell you use, here's a bash proposal:
tar_gz=( $(find @etc@apache2...) )
[ ${#tar_gz[@]} -ne 5 ] && { echo "file set incomplete"; exit 1; }
for FN in ${tar_gz[@]}; do ... ; done

If tar_gzholds more than one file name, the expression fails, as it has "too many arguments". Make sure to work on one file at a time, e.g. by using a for loop or similar.

You only want to show the directories? In that case you can use
find /restore/configuration/ -name configuration_backup* -type d

... and even more effective were the single readIFS=":" read X X USERID GROUPID X HOMEID SHELLID < <(grep $USER /etc/passwd)

Run the following UUOC killer on your script:
sed 's/\<cat \([^ ][^ ]* *\)| *\([^{(]\)/ < \1\2/' yourscript > newscriptand see the result with
diff yourscript newscript:cool:

I'd rather make it english output first than add a handler for yum/apt-get...

Either way:
Very nice approach, for future, try to make each function just to that single thing it should.
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