Never actually had to do it myself (I would use Perl) but this seems to work cat myfile | sed -e "/#comment 2/aFirst line\nSecond Line" On May 26, 2006 12:51 pm, Cesar Covarrubias wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a script on about 30 machines and need to insert > text after a specific comment. For example: > > #comment 1 > > #comment 2 > > #comment 3 > > I want to add text after #comment 2, on a new line. I have > been trying to work with both sed and awk but no success. This > has to be done in bash or sh and cannot be done in any other > language. Any ideas? -- > Very Respectfully, > Cesar Covarrubias > cesar@xxxxxxx -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
