Howto insert string. (Was: Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.)

Mon Aug 7 11:34:00 UTC 2006

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:13:03AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:47:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> > 	I've got 80 or so html/php files. Most do have 
> > 
> > 	<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF"> 
> > 
> > 	but a whole slew do not/are missing the BG color code.
> > 	So is there some scripto-magic way of finding out which fles are 
> > 	missing the above string?  I know how, using an ed/ex script to
> > 	insert this string.  
> 
> I'd probably do "grep -vi bgcolor filename"

[bad form to reply to my own post, etc.]

Doh! You want to *insert* the string, not (just) find the ones that 
don't have it. My ed/ex chops blow, so with sed:

sed -i '' 's/<BODY>/<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">/' file_name

Kurt