help--with sed

[Karthik_sg]

Hi all,
I have a file called fields.txt and i have the following in it as contents
`cat /ghl`
echo "debug"
echo "complete"
My question is how do i insert some text in the first line before `cat /ghl` using sed.
And how do i insert after last word in the last line using sed.Please help me guys its urgent...
Please give the code..thanks in advance..

[Ivan Ferreira]

If you run this:

sed "1 s/^/word_to_insert /" filename

You will add "word_to_insert " to the begining of the first line in "filename".

[Ivan Ferreira]

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[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# sed -e '1 s/^/_BEGIN_/' -e '$ s/$/_END_/' fields.txt

...using your example, this would yield:

_BEGIN_`cat /ghl`
echo "debug"
echo "complete"_END_

Regards!

...JRF...

[H R Dileepkumar]

hi friend,

to insert some text first line before. use this command line

sed "1 s/^/word_to_insert /" filename

to insert some text lost line before. use this command line

sed "(lost line number) s/$/word_to_insert /" filename