SED - Append immediately after pattern

[cmschube]

Hey all,

I've seen plenty of places that talked about adding lines w/sed after finding a pattern. However, I haven't seen how to append immediately after a pattern without just substituting the whole line.

i.e.

destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };

appending udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx));

after

/var/log/secure");

to make

destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx)); };

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris

[alf55]

for example the contents of the file, /tmp/junk, is

blah blah
blah blah
fred blah blah
blah blah
blah blah

and you wish to add the lines of:

newline one
newline two

after the line containing the pattern "fred", the the sed script fiel would be:

/fred/ a\
newline one\
newline two

A sample execution below:

bash$ sed -f /tmp/sedscript  /tmp/junk 
blah blah
blah blah
fred blah blah
newline one
newline two
blah blah
blah blah
bash$

[drl]

Hi.

If you choose to use sed, there are 2 possible pitfalls, both with the characters in your data. The first is the "/" in the pathname of the data, the second is the double quote in the inserted string. Here's one solution:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s2	Demonstrate new string insertion after unique string.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C sed

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE
new='udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx));'
unique='/var/log/secure");'

pe
pe " Adding [$new]"
pe " after [$unique]"

pl " Results:"
sed -e "s|^\(.*$unique\)\(.*\)$|\1$new\2|" $FILE

echo
echo " Expected output:"
echo 'destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx)); };'

exit 0

producing:

% ./s2

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.8 (lenny) 
GNU bash 3.2.39
GNU sed version 4.1.5

-----
 Input data file data1:
destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };

 Adding [ udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx));]
 after [/var/log/secure");]

-----
 Results:
destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx)); };

 Expected output:
destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); udp(x.x.x.x port(xxx) localport(xxx)); };

See man sed or sed tutorials for details.

Note that data and code posted in threads are more easily readable if they are placed in CODE segments. Best wishes ... cheers, drl