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javascriptninja

02-25-2012 09:30 AM

How to get sed to modify the nth line

Let's say I'm going to pipe a file to sed, and I want sed to prepend the nth line with a certain character. How would I do that?

millgates

02-25-2012 09:35 AM

Code:

sed '9s/.*/this is 9-th line: &/'

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