Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:57:13 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: insert new line in files Message-ID: <200902070957.13650.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com> References: <498CBEBE.7080702@gmail.com> <20090206232129.GB75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com>
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On Friday 06 February 2009, Adam Vande More wrote: > 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. Whether to use \ or \\ will depend on your shell. You can avoid dependence on the shell by using a sed script, e.g. curlew:/tmp% cat test.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 curlew:/tmp% cat test.sed #! /usr/bin/sed -f 5i\ test curlew:/tmp% ./test.sed test.txt 1 2 3 4 test 5 6 -- Mike Clarke
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