Unix insert text into file

Viewed k times. Any suggestion? Improve this question. Manolo Manolo 1, 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. It doesn't work without -i option. I'll update your answer before accepting. What OS are you using? Original solution worked on OpenSuse 9. I'm on Lubuntu Here, using sed GNU sed 4. Thanks — ton. Does not work on empty files. Show 10 more comments.

Ankit Shah Ankit Shah 4 4 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Please let me know why the following is downvoted — Ankit Shah. Perhaps because the OP mentions sed. That does not deserve a down vote in my opinion.

That solution was even the best fitting my needs, then upvoted. I upvoted. Zombo Zombo 5, 5 5 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 58 58 bronze badges.

GAD3R I get "awk: fatal: can't open source file 'inplace' for reading" GNU Awk 4. Joseph R. The question is not about the -i switch. How do you figure that? It is an answer to the question. Yes, it's similar to the accepted answer, but not exactly the same. G-Man - one might argue the template used by cas is far from ideal but really, this is similar like in nearly identical As far as I am concerned they are technically identical as they are both gnu sed specific and it just happens that gnu sed will accept the i without a backslash.

The next line or multiple lines is literal text to be added. The x causes Ex to save the changes to the file and exit. Wildcard Wildcard If the file has no lines i. I have searched through the forums and haven't had any success.

Please help. Last edited by banjo25; at PM.. Reason: used incorrect word - data rather than date. I am not clear on exactly what you want to do, but the following will produce the output you want: Code :. Insert a value between two empty delimiter in the file. Would like to insert value between two empty delimiter and at the very last too if empty.

How to remove empty field in a text file? Hi all, I want to remove empty field in a text file. I tried to used sed. But it failed. Insert empty columns inside a pipe delimited file. Hi All , I have pipe delimiter file with 11 columns. I need to insert 4 empty columns after column Insert row into empty file Greetings: I generate an empty flat file just fine when there's no data returned from my process, as the customer wants one always using the 1st line of the below script.

However, they also want at least the column names in this flat file row 1, the only row to be in the emply file. Insert empty columns in a flat file.

Hi, I have a tab delimited flat file, for example shown below Name Desg Loc a b c d e fI want to insert an empty column inbetween the column Desc and Loc, the result should be like shown below: Name LName Desg Loc a b c d e Hi, I want to insert the text 'Unknown' in 2 specific columns in a csv file actually separated if the column is blank.

Hi all, I want to create a file and then insert some text into it. I'm trying to create a. Just as a side Inserting a column into a text file. I have a tab delimited text file with multiple columns data. I would like to insert a column into the text file. The column I want to insert is in a text file column.

I want to insert it into the 5th column of data. How do I go about doing that? Inserting text with SED. Hi guys, I need to insert test.

Inserting text to file, sed and variable not acting right. I want to put text stored in a variable into a file on the 7th line. I've tried several forms of quoting and this is the only one that Hello Can somebody please help me with the following script?

I'm trying to create a text file with 20 blank lines and then insert a string in line 2 but nothing is printed in the itxtfile. I can create the file with 20 blank lines but when I "tell" it to print something on the second line, it Inserting text and modifying the file. I am in a dire need of doing this job , please help from shell script or perl script. It will be highly appreciated. Please have a look at the following INPUT file; The first 14 rows are not of interest but I want them to be included in the output file as they are.

From the row Inserting New Line in File using Sed?? Dear All, I have a file called football where i have a list of 11 players each on different lines.