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Zounadire
Zounadire

Reputation: 1564

Sed command returning "invalid command code"

I'm trying to insert this text...

"error.emailNotActivated":"This email address has not been activated yet."

... at line number 5 using sed.

Here is my command so far

translated="This email address has not been activated yet.";
sed -i '' -e '5i\'$'\n''"error.emailNotActivated":'"\"$translated\"" local.strings;

I unfortunately keep getting the error message "invalid command code T". It seems that sed is interpreting the colon as part of a command. Any suggestions how i can avoid this?

EDIT: Seems like an update error (working with old file d'oh...) the above expression works fine as do the other suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3112

Answers (2)

Ed Morton
Ed Morton

Reputation: 203393

Why are you fighting with sed for this? It's trivial in awk:

awk -v line='"error.emailNotActivated":"'"$translated"'"' '
NR==5{print line} {print}
' file

or:

awk -v line="\"error.emailNotActivated\":\"${translated}\"" '
NR==5{print line} {print}
' file

Upvotes: 3

Fredrik Pihl
Fredrik Pihl

Reputation: 45652

Are you looking for something like this?

$ seq 1 5 > file

$ cat file
1
2
3
4
5

$ translated="\"error.emailNotActivated\":\"This email address has not been activated yet.\""

$ echo $translated 
"error.emailNotActivated":"This email address has not been activated yet."

$ sed -i "5i $translated" file

$ cat file
1
2
3
4
"error.emailNotActivated":"This email address has not been activated yet."
5

Upvotes: 1

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