Insert a new line with text using sed

[dsm325]

I have several hundered files with the exact same format, and I need to add a line below another line that starts with
SENDID.
My new line will have RESOURCE=10030

I tried playing with i ((insert) and I am not coming up with anything.

Please assist, thanks much

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:

sed -e '/^SENDID/iRESOURCE=10030
' /path/to/oldfile >/path/to/newfile

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[dsm325]

I have several files that need to be changed, do I put some kind of a loop?

 

[PHV]

Says you have a file FileNames.lst with the list of the files to changed, you can do something like this:

while read f
do sed -e '/^SENDID/iRESOURCE=10030
' "$f" >"$f.tmp" && mv "$f.tmp" "$f"
done </path/to/FileNames.lst

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[dsm325]

PH thanks for taking the time to help me out with this.