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Old 06-07-2011
Question about a sed command

Hi guys,

I'm currently trying to understand a piece of shell script and it has some sed commands. I've been looking through sed tutorials to figure out what it does but still no luck Smilie

Can any of you guys tell me what this particular command does?


sed -i '1i\.options' a/*

Thanks

EDIT: nevermind... I figured out that it appends some stuff at the top of a file. Sorry about this folks

Last edited by chu816; 06-07-2011 at 07:57 PM..
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Old 06-07-2011
insert ".options " at first line in each file under folder a.
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