On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:07 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > That alone doesn't fit your original specification: > > [sam@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: > > [sam@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 -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 08:36:24 up 9 days, 22:11, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.12, 0.08 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
