On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:07 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> That alone doesn't fit your original specification:
> 
> [...@samlap Desktop]$ sed -e '/BB/R file2' file1
> AA
> BB
> BBBB1
> CC
> DD
> 
> AA
> BB
> BBBB2
> CC
> DD
> 
> You specified that BB was to be /replaced/ with BBBB1, so you will
> need to do this:
> 
> [...@samlap Desktop]$ sed -e '/BB/R file2' -e '/BB/d' file1
> AA
> BBBB1
> CC
> DD
> 
> AA
> BBBB2
> CC
> DD

My bad - I meant to say "insert" not replace because I had another
version of the that doesn't have "BB" in it.

Thanks for pointing it out to me, though.

Regards,

Ranbir

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