Hi folks, Can someone help me. I'd like to locate a character (@) in a text file and append a string of characters like "< yyyyyyy...y". For example in both sed and awk: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@ <yyyyyyyyy Thanks in advance.

sed 's/@/@<yyyyyy/g' input_file sed 's/@/&<yyyyyy/g' input_file awk '{gsub(/@/,"@<yyyyyy"); print}' input_file awk '{gsub(/@/,"&<yyyyyy"); print}' input_file Jean-Pierre.

Hi Jean, More specifically: the inserted string is </usr/iplanet/suitespot/ I am getting command garbled message. Newbie..

The problem comes from the character '/' in the replacement string. For the sed commands, replace the delimitor '/' by another character that is not in the replacement string. For example: sed "s!@!&</usr/iplanet/suitespot/!g' Jean-Pierre.

Jean, I added the ' instead of ". It works! Thx sed "s!@!&</usr/iplanet/suitespot/!g'