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Explore Stack Internal I have a text file test.txttest.txt with something like the following:
foo configure top start fun bar hello I want to comment out line numbers 2, 5 &and 7. So, so that the output shouldwould look like:
foo #configure top start #fun bar #hello When I use sed -i "2,7 {s/^/#/}" test.txt lines 2,3 3,4 4,5 5,6 & 6 and 7 get commented. How to ensure only specific line numbers are commented? Appreciate any help.
I have a text file test.txt with something like the following:
foo configure top start fun bar hello I want to comment out line numbers 2, 5 & 7. So the output should look like:
foo #configure top start #fun bar #hello When I use sed -i "2,7 {s/^/#/}" test.txt lines 2,3,4,5,6 & 7 get commented. How to ensure only specific line numbers are commented? Appreciate any help.
I have a text file test.txt with something like the following:
foo configure top start fun bar hello I want to comment out line numbers 2, 5 and 7, so that the output would look like:
foo #configure top start #fun bar #hello When I use sed -i "2,7 {s/^/#/}" test.txt lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 get commented. How to ensure only specific line numbers are commented? Appreciate any help.
I have a text file test.txt with something like the following:
foo configure top start fun bar hello I want to comment out line numbers 2, 5 & 7. So the output should look like:
foo #configure top start #fun bar #hello When I use sed -i "2,7 {s/^/#/}" test.txt lines 2,3,4,5,6 & 7 get commented. How to ensure only specific line numbers are commented? Appreciate any help.