insert new line in files

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 15:49:37 PST 2009


Adam Vande More wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
>>> I had actually tried that too:
>>>
>>>  > sed -e '5i\
>>> ? test' text.txt
>>> sed: 1: "5i
>>> test
>>> ": command i expects \ followed by text
>>>     
>>
>> I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something 
>> ate it. Are you running this command from something other than the 
>> commandline or a
>> plain sh script?  If you're calling this from another scripting language
>> (via system() or popen() or something similar), you probably have to 
>> double
>> the backslash so whatever's parsing it out passes one through to sed.
>>   
> This is being executed from stock tcsh
>
> Progress is being made as it works in the test now with the \\ however 
> I'm running into more things I don't understand in regards to what I 
> need to escape in my input string.
>
> > sed -e '5i\\
> include(\'/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php\');' test.txt
> Unmatched '.
>
> I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail.
nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well.  Okay now I'm going to try to 
find a way to do this with find and xargs


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