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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I am using UNix Sun OS sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
My intention is to insert a line of text after 13th line of every file inside a particular directory.
While trying to do it for a single file , i am using sed
sed '3 i this is the 4th line' filename
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a test file that I want to read and insert only certain lines into the
the table based on a filter.
1. Rread the log file 12 Hours back Getdate() -12 Hours
2. Extract the following information on for lines that say "DUMP is
complete"
A. Date
B. Database Name
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to insert a line with text after the 9th line of a text file. How would I do this using sed or awk? (2 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am trying to add a line (usually just a word) to some text files in a directory that are already sorted. I just don't want to run the sort command again because it can take a long time when the text or log files are really huge. I have a bashscript that will take in the 1st argument... (7 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed '1r file.txt' <source.txt >desti.txt
This example will insert 'file.txt' between line 1 and 2 of source.txt.
sed '0r file.txt' <source.txt >desti.txt
gives an error message.
Does anyone know how 'sed' can insert 'file.txt' before the first line of source.txt? (18 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I can't seem to get sed to allow me to insert text in the first line of an empty file. I have a file.txt that is a 0 byte file. I want sed to insert " fooBar" onto the first line. I've tried a few options and nothing seems to work. They work just fine if there's text in the file tho. Help? (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I just want to add a particular string in text file using shell script
text file format
1 columns-10
2 text=89
3 no<>
4
5 test-9876
6 size=9
string need to insert in 4th line
<switch IP='158.195.2.567' port='5900' user='testc' password='asdfrp' Code='8'>
After inserting the... (8 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Folks :),
I am new to UNIX scripting and I do not know how can I insert some text in the first column of a UNIX text file at command promtp.
I can do this in vi editor by using this command :g/^/s//BBB_
e,g I have a file named as Test.dat and it containins below text:
michal... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
So I need to write lines into line X of file X.
I can get the file by doing:
cfgnumber=$(cat -n -comm.cfg| grep -i "servicegroup_name 24x7-comunicacions")
echo $cfgnumber
it outputs the Line where it finds now I need to start writing something right bellow that line.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to insert a file called temp_impact (which has about 15 lines in it) to a file called 11.23cfg starting at line 33. I searched the forums and found the
sed '34i\
test' 11.23cfg > newfile
That will enter word test at the appropriate line, but i need the entire file dumped there. Any... (4 Replies)
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