On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Rock wrote:
> How can I insert a line in a file at line number 20? Simply please. I
> really understand the straight forward explanations. My mind is just
> wired funny I guess. I am using all shell commands to do this file
> manipulation.
{ head -19 $file ; echo "$line" ; tail +20 $file ; } > $tempfile
mv $tempfile $file
I'm sure there's a nifty way using a sed command, something like
sed -e 1,20p -e c\
"$line"\
-e '21-$p' $file > $tempfile
mv $tempfile $file
but I'm almost sure I've messed that up.
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