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akkunt
akkunt

Reputation: 9

How to put text into a file under a specific line in Bash?

I want a Bash script that puts userinput into a file called software.txt. But I need the userinput to be under a specific line #addedsoftware in software.txt. The script should be able to add useriput multiple times into this file. Is this something that can be achieved with something like sed? When i ran sed '/#TESTING/a some text here' software.txt it did not add it to the file. Then i ran sed '/#TESTING/a some text here' > software.txt This one just adds whatever keys i press after the command is ran.

Edit i got it working with.: sed -i '/#TESTING/a some text here' file

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1142

Answers (1)

BlueSquare23
BlueSquare23

Reputation: 69

Would something like this work? It takes the software.txt file and splits it into two parts, top and bottom. Top is everything up to the specified line and bottom is everything after that line. Then it puts the software.txt file back together with the user input between the two parts.

For example say your software.txt file looks like this.

software.txt

# Software.txt

Line 3
Line 4
Line 4
Line 6

# Put user input below this line.

Line 10
Line 11
Line 12

insert_user_input.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Read user input.
echo -n "Enter input: "
read user_input

software_txt_top_half=$(sed '/# Put user input below this line./q' software.txt)

software_txt_bottom_half=$(sed '1,/# Put user input below/d' software.txt)

# Insert user input into software.txt after specified line.
cat << EOF > software.txt
$software_txt_top_half
$user_input
$software_txt_bottom_half
EOF

Then after running the script it would look like this,

$ ./insert_user_input.sh 
Enter input: asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf

# Software.txt

Line 3
Line 4
Line 4
Line 6

# Put user input below this line.
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf

Line 10
Line 11
Line 12

Upvotes: 1

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