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Old 06-19-2008
How to put a comment at the begining of the sentence

I have a file shows as below. I would like to put # before CCCC. so how to do in Solaris. Here sed doesnot support -i

[StartUpTasks]


[RunTimeTasks]
AAAA
BBBB
CCCCC

DDDDD

EEEEE
FFFFFF
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Old 06-19-2008
Code:
awk '/^CCCC/{$0="#"$0}1' file

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