SUMMARY: Using sed or awk to append a line based on some search criteria

From: Anwar Saadeh (saad_an_at_printronix.com)
Date: 07/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:34:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

    My apology since this was not related to Sun system administration.

    Thank you all:

    JULIAN, JOHN C
    Bertrand Hutin and
    ttg

    Here are the answers:

    -----From JULIAN------------------

    sed "/$MatchStuff/a\\
    $NewLineStuff" OrigFile > NewFile

    -----From Bertand------------------

    awk '/specific text/{print;print "appended line";next+;{print}' file

    My original question:

    Hi Sun Managers,

    I need to be able to search for a specific text in a file and append a new line
    right after the text I found.

    I know there was something about using "\a" for appending but for some reason I
    cannot get it work.

    TIA
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