Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:45:45 +0000 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: insert new line in files Message-ID: <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090206232129.GB75180@dan.emsphone.com> References: <498CBEBE.7080702@gmail.com> <20090206225619.GA75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CC0FC.1040706@gmail.com> <20090206232129.GB75180@dan.emsphone.com>
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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.
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