Sed question

[danhodges99]

Hi,

I need to place a line of text into a file at a certain point, and I have been using:

sed '
/theWord/ {
atheNewLine
}' < sourceFile > newFile

This works a treat, trouble is that it adds theNewLine underneath EVERY occurrence of lines containing theWord. Does anyone know a way to simply add theNewLine underr the FIRST occurence of theWord, or indeed how to group multiple words together as theWord and add theNewLine under that?

Hope this is clear, thanks

 

[jad]

thread822-489830

awk 'output == 1{print &quot;Output Text&quot;; output=2} /line4/ && output<1 {output=1} {print}' <file>

should work

 

[iribach]

the a and i command need a empty line at the end
give 2 newlines at end of the 'theNewLine' string
you do not need the '<' redirect, sed is able to open files.

sed '
/theWord/ {
atheNewLine

}' sourceFile > newFile

this sure works in a sed-cmd-file, my be also on cmd-line

sed '
/theWord/atheNewLine

' sourceFile > newFile