Re: QSHELL SED insert

Hello Arnie,

Am 12.10.2020 um 07:32 schrieb Arnie Flangehead <arnie.flangehead@xxxxxxxxx>:

But I've been knocking my brains out trying to figure out the syntax for
insert. The examples and tutorials I've pored through don't work in QSHELL.
There's not much point in my giving you what doesn't work because I've
tried hundreds of combinations. The manual is completely useless - no
examples at all.

If I have:

ONE IS NICE
THREE IS NICEST

I want to be able to insert the text TWO IS NICER between those two. Should
be simple, but I'm utterly defeated.

First, do you provide the pattern inline (on the command line) or with -f and an input pattern file? Different implementations of sed are *very* picky about the embedded escaped newline.

On IBM i 7.2, I tested. First, edtf 'infile.txt', content your two lines from above. Save, exit. Second, edtf 'sedscript', content:

/^THREE IS NICEST$/i \
TWO IS NICER

Save, exit. Run:

sed -f sedscript < infile.txt

Works on Debian Linux 10, works on IBM i 7.2, does *not* work on OS/400 V4R5. But this might be a locale problem, the error message "sed: 1: sedscript: command i expects Ö followed by text" hints to sed seeing an Ö instead of a \.

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