Hi Darren, Thank you for your answer. I tried that already and it works. Problem is, it is assuming that the PATH line is line 10 and in other systems it may not be. Any ideas ? Warm Regards, MARG PS: Thank you Scott for the cool link. darren kirby wrote: > quoth the MARG: > >>Hi, >> >>My .bash_profile is: >>---------------------- >># .bash_profile >> >># Get the aliases and functions >>if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then >> . ~/.bashrc >>fi >> >># User specific environment and startup programs >> >>PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin >> >>export PATH >>unset USERNAME >>---------------------------- >> >>What i'd like to do is from the command prompt or a bash script, insert >>text after the line "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin". >> >>I've searched the web and tried a few tricks, but one worked :( >> >>Could you help me please > > > sed is the tool you need. > > Try something like: > > sed -e '10a\some text\' .bash_profile > > >>Wam Regards, >>MARG > > > -d > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
