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# 1  
Old 12-09-2005
Insert file content to a file
Hi, is there a Unix command line that does merge entire content of fileA to fileB at a specific line in the middle...thanks.
# 2  
Old 12-09-2005
I can think of a sed solution.

See this

Code:
[/tmp]$ cat file1
1
2
3
4
5
[/tmp]$ cat file2
6
7
8
9
10
[/tmp]$ sed -e '/8/r file1' file2 > file.new
[/tmp]$ cat file.new
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
9
10
[/tmp]$

# 3  
Old 12-09-2005
Thanks Vino, that helps.

Rgds. Smilie
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