On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:33 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 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. Oh my word. I can't believe I missed that. So, I've solved my little problem with this: sed '/BB/R file2' file1 Sweet! Thanks to everyone who cared enough to reply. I appreciate your time. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 14:54:24 up 9 days, 4:29, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.15, 1.11 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines