Showing posts with label file insertion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label file insertion. Show all posts

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Perl Insert Contents of One File Into Another at Line Matching Regex

Nice to have something I think is better than stackexchange - how often does that happen :) ?

To insert after a line matching the regex

perl -n -i -e 'print; print `cat FILE_TO_INSERT` if m#REGEX_TO_MATCH#; ' FILE_TO_MODIFY

To insert before :

perl -n -i -e 'print `cat FILE_TO_INSERT` if m#REGEX_TO_MATCH#; print;' FILE_TO_MODIFY

If you want the insertion to happen at the first match ONLY :

perl -n -i -e 'print `cat FILE_TO_INSERT` if m?REGEX_TO_MATCH?; print;' FILE_TO_MODIFY

A very valid question is, what do you do if your match pattern has the question-mark character? :)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32908/how-to-insert-the-content-of-a-file-into-another-file-before-a-pattern-marker