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Thanks Thats it .. dint hit me untill i saw the solution .. dang ! thank you

No removing \ from " dint work as sed complaining about command
here is a smaller version i am testing with


#!/bin/bash
var=WR#cmd#sfa_2_1_xtrapr
sed "/^insert_job:[ ,\t]$var/ a
> test...

Corona
The multiline is for the sed the append command requires a new line after a

This will not solve my problem of resolving the job_nm variable any way would it ?

Hi i am having a stange problem.
Basically for my sed script used within bash i can unly use a single Quote with sed '. (if i use " then i get command garbled error with sed )
The problem with this...

Now that worked ! Thank you . i know there was some thing i was missing.
Thanks!

% sed ' /WORD/ a\sample line 1 \sample line2 \' ttsed: command garbled: /WORD/ a% unameSunOS% which sed/usr/bin/sed%

I am running the command directly on putty . So no windows issues
I am copy pasting the entire command and its output
% sed ' /WORD/ a\
sample line 1 \
sample line2 \
' tt
sed: command...

absolutely Not I dont have a space or anythign . like i mentioned in the post i double triple checked if i have a new line starting after a\

Hi
I probably dont have GNU extended sed in my SUNOS . and its creating lot of problems
ex:
a simple sed command like this is not working

sed '/WORD/ a\
sample text line 1 \
sample text...