Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I've got some problems with editing a big configuration file .. its about 2k lines long.. anyway what I need is to place certain text to certain line number.. lets say I need to place "Something" on line 980 .. "something" else on line number 1500 and so on without tempering the rest of the configuration file ... I found somewhere this

Code:

head -981 conf.temp > conf.conf; echo "Email myemail@email.com" >> conf.conf; sed '4,$!d' <conf.temp >> conf.conf

it seems to work on one occasion but when I want to make another change in the configuration whole thing comes messed up, things appear double and so on ... any help ?

Thank you in advance ...

Worst thread title ever. Even worse than "Help!" How can you what? I didn't read your post because of your lame ass title.

0k Thank you for notifying me about the title .. go on and read not so lame titles ..

First off this assumes you want to add a line of text so it becomes line #980, #1500
If what you mean is "backwards" from this, ie., becomes 981 and 1500, then put the print $0 at the top of the { } block instead of the bottom. I can't tell what you want.

Code:

awk '{  if (NR==980) { print "something"}
          if ( NR==1500) {prints "something else"}
          print $0
       } ' bigfile > biggerfile

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