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Old 04-14-2009
Simple sed command
I have some troubles with this:

insert (at the beginning of line) character "#" from line 5 to line 15
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Old 04-14-2009
Code:
sed '5,15s/^/#/' myFile

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Old 04-14-2009
one more way to do it
Code:
awk '{if(NR>=5&&NR<=15){print "#"$0}else {print $0}}' filename

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Old 04-14-2009
Many many thanks Smilie
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