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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I would like to insert N blankspaces in front of a string using sed command
To give an example (N=10), I tried that code:
$ echo "abcd" | sed 's/^/ \{10,\}&/'
but I failed, by obtaining that result:
{10,}abcd
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am just trying to add specific text in front of a ${variant} but can not seem to get the syntax correct.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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Some
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to insert new text and change existing text in a file. For that I used the below line in the command line and got the expected output.
sed '$a\
hi...
' shell > shell1
But I face problem when using the same in script. It is throwing the error as,
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
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