Find and Insert

[iaresean]

Hello All;

I am trying to insert about 4 lines after a specific sentence in the file. This sentence may not necessarily be on the same line in the file every time. How would I do this? I tried using a sed but it didn't print out the new lines.

I want for example:
Harry is

To become:
Harry is
no pleased
as he
cannot see
the...

This is how I tried it using sed:
infile="harry.txt"

sed -e 'sHarry is!Harry is\nno pleased\nas he\ncannot see\nthe...!g' $infile.$$ >$infile && rm $infile.$$

But this printed the following:
Harry isnno pleasednas hencannot seenthe...

I tried double slashing but that just printed:
Harry is\nno pleased\nas he\ncannot see\nthe...

Any ideas how to do this, maybe recommendations of a different method?

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

Sean.

 

[Ygor]

Try using awk instead...

awk '{print}/Harry is/{print "no pleased\nas he\ncannot see\nthe..."}' infile

 

[aigles]

With sed :
[tt]
sed -e '/Harry is/ano pleasedas hecannot seethe...' $infile.$$ >$infile [/tt]

Jean Pierre.