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Grep command and adding a line

Hello,

I have several configs in a file that need a line of text added to each config. How would I execute a command to add the line of text after a certain pattern is found in the file.

I tried this, but it doesn't work:

Code:

cat sipt-ae.cfg.test | grep -v 'host =' sipt-ae.cfg.test | printf "%b" '\nmenuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>' > test.txt

[root@dalimnag02 include]# less test.txt

Quote:

Originally Posted by dorian33 (Post 3594633)

use sed

I can't get this to work.

I want to add a new line for each config after the line that has "alerts=" listed in text.txt:

menuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>

test.txt

config 1
alerts=information

config 2
alerts=more information

config 3
alerts=some more information

after modifications (test.txt):

config 1
alerts=information
menuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>

config 2
alerts=more information
menuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>

config 3
alerts=some more information
menuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>

Code:

sed -re 's|(^alerts=.*$)|\1\nmenuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>\n|' test.txt

Quote:

Originally Posted by dorian33 (Post 3595227)

Code:

sed -re 's|(^alerts=.*$)|\1\nmenuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>\n|' test.txt

Thank you. :)

It works beautifully. I kept trying the command with the slashes using s/ and /a.

sed -e 's/^alerts=.*$/\nmenuextra = <a target='_blank' href='tr/tr.html{HOST}' class='{CLASS}' onclick="window.open(this.href,this.target, 'width=800,height=500,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,scrollbars=no'); return false;">*</a>/a' test.txt