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How to insert file contents after nth occurrence of a string using sed?

Hi,
I would like to know how, using sed, be able to insert contents of file2 in file1 after say the second occurrence of a given string? e.g.

Code:

> cat file1
banana
apple
orange
apple
banana
pear
tangerine
apple 

> cat file2
I don't like apples

What would be the sed command to insert the contents of file2 after the second occurrence of apple in file1? i.e the output would be:

Code:

banana
apple
orange
apple
I don't like apples
banana
pear
tangerine
apple

Thanks in advance..

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You can try with like this also . I am not using

Code:

sed

here.

Code:

awk -v place=`awk '$1~/apple/ {a=a+1;if(a==2){b=NR}} END {print b} ' file1` '{ if(FILENAME == "file1" && NR <=place) { print }; if(FILENAME == "file2") { print }}' file1 file2 > outputfile
awk -v place=`awk '$1~/apple/ {a=a+1;if(a==2){b=NR}} END {print b} ' file1` '{ if(FILENAME == "file1" && NR >place) { print }}' file1 >> outputfile

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output is like this with number of occurance 2 .

Code:

cat outputfile
banana
apple
orange
apple
I don't like apples
banana
pear
tangerine
apple

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Try

Code:

sed '1,/apple/{p;d}; /apple/,$ {1,1 r file2
}' file1
banana
apple
orange
apple
I don't like apples
banana
pear
tangerine
apple

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Code:

[akshay@nio tmp]$ cat file1.txt
banana
apple
orange
apple
banana
pear
tangerine
apple

Code:

[akshay@nio tmp]$ cat file2.txt
I don't like apples

Code:

[akshay@nio tmp]$ awk '$0 ~ pattern{++c}1 ; c==occurence && !f{f=1; while(getline < content){ print }close(content) }' pattern='apple' occurence='2' content='file2.txt'  file1.txt

Resulting

Code:

banana
apple
orange
apple
I don't like apples
banana
pear
tangerine
apple

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