Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:50:38 +0000 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: insert new line in files Message-ID: <498CBEBE.7080702@gmail.com>
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I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain
files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text
like this:
include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php');
to be put into file X at line 37 where file X appears in ./subdir1,
.subdir2 etc. There are many subdirs or I'd just do it by hand.
I've done stuff like this before with the rpl script and it works well
as long as there aren't any special characters in the strings. So I
assumed I finally hit the point where I'm forced to learn something like
sed or awk and tried some examples with sed but I can't figure out what
I'm doing wrong.
I get results like this:
sed '5i\test' test.txt
sed: 1: "5i\test": extra characters after \ at the end of i command
Is sed the right tool for this? If so, any good primers for BSD sed?
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