Just as a possible starting point...
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:50:38 +0000, Adam Vande More <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I want to insert a new line of text at a certain position in certain
> files recursively under a directory. More specifically, I want text
> like this:
>
> include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php');
>
> to be put into file X at line 37 where file X appears in ./subdir1,
> .subdir2 etc. There are many subdirs or I'd just do it by hand.
>
> [...]
>
> Is sed the right tool for this? If so, any good primers for BSD sed?
I'd suggest awk. If you have already a mechanism to "handle" each of the
files that need alteration, an awk command could be this:
awk '{ print $0; if(NR == 37)
printf("include('/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php');\n"); }' <file>
It may be neccessary to have a look at the multiple ' (awk skript enclosure,
include() parameter enclusure).
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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