From: Anwar Saadeh (saad_an@printronix.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 12:34:12 EDT
My apology since this was not related to Sun system administration.
Thank you all:
JULIAN, JOHN C
Bertrand Hutin and
ttg
Here are the answers:
-----From JULIAN------------------
sed "/$MatchStuff/a\\
$NewLineStuff" OrigFile > NewFile
-----From Bertand------------------
awk '/specific text/{print;print "appended line";next+;{print}' file
My original question:
Hi Sun Managers,
I need to be able to search for a specific text in a file and append a new line
right after the text I found.
I know there was something about using "\a" for appending but for some reason I
cannot get it work.
TIA
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