Re: how to insert two lines at the same place in many files

>>
>> I have over 300 files that need the following done to them:
>>
>> at line X insert the following two lines:
>>
>> xxx [foo]
>> xxx ack
>>
>> where [foo] is the fully qualified path the the file with the /'s
>> converted to .'s

I usually keep vim out of such tasks. Why not regular linux commands?-
Something like:
for file in `ls your_files*`; do sed -i "Xa\xxx `dirname foo`\nxxx
ack" $file ; done

BR,
Yosi

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