Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:49:40 +0000 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: insert new line in files Message-ID: <498CCC94.6080507@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com> References: <498CBEBE.7080702@gmail.com> <20090206225619.GA75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CC0FC.1040706@gmail.com> <20090206232129.GB75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com>
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Adam Vande More wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: >>> I had actually tried that too: >>> >>> > sed -e '5i\ >>> ? test' text.txt >>> sed: 1: "5i >>> test >>> ": command i expects \ followed by text >>> >> >> I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something >> ate it. Are you running this command from something other than the >> commandline or a >> plain sh script? If you're calling this from another scripting language >> (via system() or popen() or something similar), you probably have to >> double >> the backslash so whatever's parsing it out passes one through to sed. >> > This is being executed from stock tcsh > > Progress is being made as it works in the test now with the \\ however > I'm running into more things I don't understand in regards to what I > need to escape in my input string. > > > sed -e '5i\\ > include(\'/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php\');' test.txt > Unmatched '. > > I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well. Okay now I'm going to try to find a way to do this with find and xargs
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