hi all

i want to take a paragraph from a file and append this paragraph after ^L in another fille using shell scripting .............could you help me

Hello reham84,

assuming paragraphs are separated by blank empty lines
you might want to try this one:

awk 'BEGIN{ RS="" } { if(NR == 3){ printf("^L%s", $0) } }' fromfile >> anotherfile

It should print a formfeed and the third paragraph from "fromfile" at the end of "anotherfile".

Regards,
issue9

thank you issue9 but i have mad the folowing

sed -n '3,6p' 123.0912210926>11.tmp
x=`cat ismail.tmp`

11.tmp will contain the paragraph i need to append on the other file
then i have put this paragraph value in x

now i want to append this paragraph in another file after a certain text through this file using ksh

sed -n '3,6p' 123.0912210926>11.tmp
x=`cat 11.tmp`

11.tmp will contain the paragraph then i put this paragraph value in variable x

now i want to append this paragraph in another file after a certain text through this file using ksh

Hello reham84,

now that you have got the paragraph in "11.tmp"
you can search for "certain text" in "anotherfile"
and print it after the line where you found it:

Please try

awk '{
   print
   # print every line of the file anotherfile
}
/certain text/{
   while(getline < "11.tmp") { print }
   # if certain text is found print all lines of 11.tmp
}' anotherfile > anotherfile.tmp
mv anotherfile.tmp anotherfile

Sorry, the stuff above is not tested,
just wrote it down, should work though...

Hopefully it helps.

Regards,
issue9

lots of thank issue9

it works but i have a little problem i want to append this paragraph after every pattern matches the text as this text is repeated through the file
this script it append only after the first pattern it matches

well, yes, reham84,

my last post assumed that "certain text" occurs only once in a single line.

Perhaps a different approach could fit:

sed -n '3,6p' 123.0912210926>11.tmp
x=`cat 11.tmp`
CERTAINTEXT="certain text"
sed 's/\('${CERTAINTEXT}'\)/\1^L'"${x}"'/g' anotherfile > anotherfile.tmp
mv anotherfile.tmp anotherfile

Regards,
issue9

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