Re: QSHELL SED insert

Hello Arnie,

Am 13.10.2020 um 00:11 schrieb Arnie Flangehead <arnie.flangehead@xxxxxxxxx>:

I can't get the inline method to work.

cat infile.txt |sed '/^ONE IS NICE$/i TWO IS NICER' > outfile.txt

sed: 001-2263 Error in file "/^ONE IS NICE$/i TWO IS ..." on line 1:
command i expects a backslash followed by text.

Yap, then you're coping with an ancient implementation of sed. Probably the same issue I struggled with, years ago.

But the error message should give you a clue: Sed expects a *literal* backslash with a newline afterwards. So, the Backslash is not to be interpreted by the shell itself! And the newline must be maintained. Now, this is really PITA in an interactive shell (but possible, at least with newer stuff).

You're clearly leaving leaving ground for trying sed on the command line to be doing what you want it to do. Either do it in a shell script file, or with a commands file, as pointed out earlier.

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