TEXT file filtering... using shellscripting!!!

[superc0red]

Hey,

How i can open a text file using shellscripting,
and new lines?

for example i have the following text file:

-------[test.txt]-------------
Five Moroccans and a Syrian are charged
with 191 murders and 1,755 attempted
murders. A Spaniard is accused of 192
murders and 1,755 attempted murders.
Two of these seven - Jamal Zougam
and Abdelmajid Bouchar - are accused
of actually planting bombs.
----------------------------------

I want to add these lines:

test line 1
test line 2

between "murders. A Spaniard is accused of 192" &
"murders and 1,755 attempted murders." using shellscripting

and the out file will be:

-------[out.txt]-------------
Five Moroccans and a Syrian are charged
with 191 murders and 1,755 attempted
murders. A Spaniard is accused of 192
test line 1
test line 2
murders and 1,755 attempted murders.
Two of these seven - Jamal Zougam
and Abdelmajid Bouchar - are accused
of actually planting bombs.
----------------------------------

thanx alot, sorry for my poor english!!

[cybervegan]

Maybe sed (the stream editor) is what you are looking for?

man sed

should give you food for thought!

hth,
-cybervegan

[Motoma]

I have posted this link to sed and it's companion tutorial on regular expressions at least 8 times in the past month I have been here.

[arthurzzk]

rm out.txt
sed '4,$d' test.txt >> out.txt
echo "test line 1" >> out.txt
echo "test line 2" >> out.txt
sed -n '5,$p' test.txt >> out.txt
exit

this only works for this question