From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihldt!ll1!otuxa!lsk Newsgroups: net.unix-wizard Title: answer to sed and appending Article-I.D.: otuxa.201 Posted: Mon Feb 14 15:35:28 1983 Received: Wed Feb 16 07:47:41 1983 Seems sed is a bit picky. For one thing, you must use single quotes not double quotes; secondly, it seems to ignore sed '0a\ text' but loves, sed '1i\ text' Such is UNIX. Larry S. Kaufman Western Electric Network Software Center Lisle Illinois