2009/9/28 Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca>:
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