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Old 02-25-2012, 09:30 AM   #1
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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?
 
Old 02-25-2012, 09:35 AM   #2
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sed '9s/.*/this is 9-th line: &/'
 
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