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From: Thomas Zajic <zlatko@gmx.at>
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Subject: Re: How can I use sed to insert a character into a file?
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 21:56:01 +0200
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* Jon Danniken <nonesuch@nottodaynortomorroreither.org>

> I'm sure this is trivial to most here, but sed confounds me.  I have an
> xml file with content following this format:
> 
> <type:color>000000</type:color>
> <type:color>FFFFFF</type:color>
> 
> The information within the tags are hex colors (many different colors),
> but they need to begin with a pound sign (#) to work in a particular
> application, ie:
> 
> <type:color>#000000</type:color>
> <type:color>#FFFFFF</type:color>
> 
> How can I use sed to append the pound symbol in this file? Using sed 4.8

sed -i -e 's,<type:color>,<type:color>#,' file.xml

Could be done more sophistic & elegant, but I think it's more readable
this way. :-)


HTH & HAND
Thomas
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