I have a file and i want to add some new stuff in the middle of that. How can i do that? Someone help me out. I want to write a script for that. I am using BASH. Atif

Hi: Your question is very general so I'm taking thefile line count dividing it by 2 and appending "my text" to newfile after counting that many lines: #!/bin/bash cnt=$(wc -l < thefile) cnt=$((cnt/2)) ll=0 while read line do ll=$((ll+1)) if [[ $ll -eq $cnt ]] then echo "my newtext " >> newfile else echo "$line" >> newfile fi done < thefile

i have a Makefile: # This is a template for all makefile. #Set the list of files to be delete by clean: CLEAN_TARGETS += $(ALL_LIBRARIES) #Set the list of target to make while testing TEST_TARGETS += mytest # adjust the location of Rules.mk as needed. include ../../Rules.mk mytest: $(CMDECHO) echo mytest > /dev/null testWithFailure: ifeq ($(FAIL),) $(WarnFailTest) endif I want to add comething from the command line in front of TEST_TARGETS += How can i do that. Thanks for the reply. Atif

One more thing. there is 'mytest' after TEST_TARGETS += i need to delete that in one option and i want to retain that in another, for example if i get 'test1' from command line it should be appeneded so that it becomes TEST_TARGETS += test1 mytest atif