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. Life is learning process. Awk has ... method to handle " '. zaxxon has solution for that.

Code:

awk -v line4="<switch IP='158.195.2.567' port='5900' user='testc' password='asdfrp' Code='8'>" '
NR == 4 {
             print line4 ; next
            }
            { print $0 }
' infile

Code:

awk -v line4="<switch IP='158.195.2.567' port='5900' user='testc' password='asdfrp' Code='8'>" '
NR == 4 {
             $0=line4
            }
            { print $0 }
' infile

Works fine. Tested.

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You awk may not support -v option
try nawk,gawk

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