On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:

> How about an example?  I know only know sed for replacing things, not
> inserting a new line into a file in a specific place, even though the info
> around it changes.
>
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Chris P wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello..
> > >   Not really a freebsd question, but still a good forum to ask this.
> > > How would I insert a line into a file via a csh script.  example...
> > > I have a file that is generated via the script, and I need to insert a
> > > line between line 1 and 2.  I could do it via a head, or tail statement,
> > > and alot of steps, but I was wondering if there was an easier way to do
> > > it.

Exactly how you do it within your script depends on what else is
happening, but this shows one way of doing it from the command line:

cat originalfile | sed -n '1G;p' >modifiedfile

Cheers,

Viktor




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