sed, awk, or something...help meeeeeeeeeee

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 19:33 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> Yes, but it involves reading the man page for sed - I'm not totally
> sure you are capable of doing that.
> 
> I suggest looking at the output of "man sed", finding the section
> about the command "r" and then reading the next few lines.

Oh my word.  I can't believe I missed that.  So, I've solved my little
problem with this:

sed '/BB/R file2' file1

Sweet!

Thanks to everyone who cared enough to reply.  I appreciate your time.

Regards,

Ranbir

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