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@brianjb

Please provide that sample script you were talking about.

Regards

Yes.

Actually i am doing 2 changes in a single file.

awk '$0 ~ /\"Search_string\"/ {print; getline; print replacement1; next} {print} ' replacement1="sometext" origFile > tmpfile1

awk...

I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.

Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. going forward, search for...

Hi Hanson,

What if i have to replace the line 2 or 3 lines after the match?

Regards

Thanks Hanson. That solved it beautifully.

I did search but was not able to find a specific solution.
awk ' zap==1 {print "user input"; zap=0; next} /my pattern/ {zap=1; print $0; next} {print $0} ' infile > newfile

but issue comes when...

I have a file which requires modification via a shell script.

Need to do the following: 0. take input from user for new text. 1. search for a keyword in the file. 2. replace the line next to this...