Can someone help? I'm trying to pass an echo string over to sed in order for sed to insert it into a text file (test) as such: echo "echo "ps -ef | grep `pwd | awk -F/ '{print $5}'`/config | awk '{print \"kill -9 \" $2}' | sh" I'm trying to pipe (|)it over to sed as such sed '1s/^$/' textfile > test. When I bring up the test file, the echo string is not in it. I wish to insert the string after the "#!/bin/sh" entry. Real Newbie

in works, what are you tryimg to do?

should have been: in words what are you tryimg to do?

In basic terms, I would like to pipe an echo string into a sed command string that can place the above echoed string on the 2nd line of a text file. Thx for your help.

I don't think that's the kind of answer Dlonra was looking for. We've already solved that exact same problem in the earlier thread but now you seem to have gone back to square one, trying to do whatever it is you're trying to do in one indecipherable line of shell commands. What we need to know is what you are trying to achieve. You are giving us a collection of commands strung together and asking us why it doesn't work but we don't even know what it's meant to be doing. From our point of view it's like you've dumped a pile of machine parts in front of us and said: "Fix this please" but we don't know whether it's meant to be a motorcycle or a washing machine.