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Old 06-15-2011
append out on particular line number
I want to append output of below command to a file name "final" mentioned on line number 9.

Code:

sed 's/peter/xyz/g' ttc >> final

# 2  
Old 06-15-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by learnbash
I want to append output of below command to a file name "final" mentioned on line number 9.

Code:

sed 's/peter/xyz/g' ttc >> final


you requirement isn't clear. can you give us some example.
# 3  
Old 06-15-2011
Code:
awk '{if(NR==9) { print sub("peter","xyz",$0) } else { print $0 }}' ttc

# 4  
Old 06-15-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by kumaran_5555
you requirement isn't clear. can you give us some example.


Lets suppose i have a file final that consist of 15 lines.

I want to append the output of below command on line 9 in above file which have name "final"

Code:
sed 's/peter/xyz/g' ttc

---------- Post updated at 02:52 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:50 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
awk '{if(NR==9) { print sub("peter","xyz",$0) } else { print $0 }}' ttc


Where is the filename "final", in which i want to append the output at line 9 in final file.

---------- Post updated at 03:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:52 AM ----------

Dear sir,

is it clear to you or not now?
# 5  
Old 06-15-2011
Try this.

Code:
awk '{if(NR==9){system("sed 's/abc/ash/g' test.txt")}else {print}}' final.txt

what about lines after line number 9 ? you want them to printed or not ?
# 6  
Old 06-15-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by kumaran_5555
Try this.

Code:
awk '{if(NR==9){system("sed 's/abc/ash/g' test.txt")}else {print}}' final.txt

what about lines after line number 9 ? you want them to printed or not ?
dear sir i dont want to print the line of final.txt, i want that whatever line which we get from sed need to insert under final.txt at line number 9 nothing else.
# 7  
Old 06-15-2011
Code:
 
output=`sed 's/peter/xyz/g' ttc`;awk -v out=$output '{ if (NR==9) { print $out} else { print $0}}' final.txt
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