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Date:      Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:56:56 -0400
From:      James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_Tymk=F3w?= <sebastian.tymkow@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sed in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <486F8BB8.6040704@mammothcheese.ca>
In-Reply-To: <692660060807050706i6e02fe04t840bc0a2aff1e8ae@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <692660060807050706i6e02fe04t840bc0a2aff1e8ae@mail.gmail.com>

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Sebastian Tymków wrote:

> I've tried with sed -e '/PATTERN/ a\ line' file but this did'n work. There
> are many axamples in internet but none
> of them work on FreeBSD.

The inserted line needs to be on a separate physical line.

sed -e '/PATTERN/a\
line'

For /bin/csh, you need two backslashes because the shell recognizes
backslashes inside single-quotes, which it shouldn't.

-- 
James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca>
http://www.mammothcheese.ca



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