2009/9/28 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:48 +0200, Joerg Bergmann wrote: >> Probably it's not what you want, but I would prefer writing a >> >> 50 lines standard C program for that task... > > Gah! 'Probably' isn't the right word. > > More reading and now I've got something along the lines of what I want > to do, but it's obviously not going to work: > > sed '/BB/r file2' file1 > > This will dump the contents of file2 after each "BB" line in file1. > That's not what I'm after. > > Is there a way in sed to read in one line at a time from file2 to > replace "BB" from file1 (as I explained earlier)? Yes, but it involves reading the man page for sed - I'm not totally sure you are capable of doing that. I suggest looking at the output of "man sed", finding the section about the command "r" and then reading the next few lines. -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines