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Old 09-11-2013
Insert three lines after a particular line in ntp.conf
I want to insert three lines after the below three lines in ntp.conf:

Code:
 
server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org
<Insert line 1 >
<Insert line 2 >
<Insert line 3 >

Now how can i do so?
Last edited by vbe; 09-11-2013 at 12:42 PM.. Reason: code tags please not HTML...
# 2  
Old 09-11-2013
Is it at the end of file? In which case you can just append...
# 3  
Old 09-11-2013
No it it not at the middle of the file ntp.conf
# 4  
Old 09-11-2013
Code:
sed '/server 2/a\line1\nline2\nline3\n' ntp.conf
server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org
line1
line2
line3

 
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