2009/9/28 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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! That alone doesn't fit your original specification: [sam@samlap Desktop]$ sed -e '/BB/R file2' file1 AA BB BBBB1 CC DD AA BB BBBB2 CC DD You specified that BB was to be /replaced/ with BBBB1, so you will need to do this: [sam@samlap Desktop]$ sed -e '/BB/R file2' -e '/BB/d' file1 AA BBBB1 CC DD AA BBBB2 CC DD -- 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
