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Reputation: 87

Creating a new line with sed

I am trying to write a script to auto install openvpn. The last thing I have to do is insert the configuration file to auto start. I have tried using sed to simply search for a line before where I'm looking to insert my new but it doesn't seem to be working, I think due to the quotation marks in the command.

Do what I have is:

#AUTOSTART="all"
#AUTOSTART="none"
#AUTOSTART="home office”

Then I run my sed command:

sed -i 's/home office"/home office"\n AUTORUN="Netherlands"/' openvpn

I've looked around and tried escaping my double quote marks to see if that was the issue, but that didn't work out.

My end goal is to have:

#AUTOSTART="all"
#AUTOSTART="none"
#AUTOSTART="home office”
AUTOSTART=“Netherlands”

Upvotes: 1

Views: 117

Answers (2)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 530843

You don't need to substitute anything. sed can add text after the desired line.

sed -i '/home office/a\
AUTOSTART="Netherlands"\
' openvpn

Upvotes: 3

heemayl
heemayl

Reputation: 41987

You can do:

$ sed 's/"home office"/&\nAUTOSTART="Netherlands"/' file.txt 
#AUTOSTART="all"
#AUTOSTART="none"
#AUTOSTART="home office"
AUTOSTART="Netherlands"

I assumed you meant " instead of ”.

If you meant ” :

$ sed 's/"home office”/&\nAUTOSTART=”Netherlands”/' file.txt 
#AUTOSTART="all"
#AUTOSTART="none"
#AUTOSTART="home office”
AUTOSTART=”Netherlands”

Upvotes: 0

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