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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:56:19 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Zach Garner <zach@neurosoft.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Sed compatibility with GNU Sed
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On 2002-01-23 17:22:38, Zach Garner wrote:
> In GNU Sed (textproc/gsed), I can execute the following command which
> will insert "asdf" on the first line of the contents of file foo:
>     gsed -e '1i\' -e 'asdf' <foo
> 
> This does not work in the sed that comes with FreeBSD. Instead, the only
> way I have been able to do the above is by separating the command on two
> lines:
>     sed -e '1i\
>         asdf' < foo

Shell quotes are probably bitting you.  But what you are trying to do
is easy to emulate with:

	( echo asdf ; cat foo )

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