Question

I would like for this script:

#!/bin/sh

cat source.txt | sed "/replace_text_holder/ {
r file.txt
d
}" | cat

do be written like this:

cat source.txt | sed "/replace_text_holder/ { r file.txt d }" | cat

but that doesn’t work. Anyone know why, and/or how I fix it?

I’m currently being harassed by this error:

unbalanced "{"

I’ve tried inserting “\n” to make it believe there’s a new line, but that doesn’t work.

Clearly I have no idea what I’m doing…

Answer 1

Try this:

sed -e '/replace_text_holder/{r file.txt' -e 'd}'