I trying to add a line at the end of file (/root/test.conf) with sed. I use FreeBSD and when I try to add a simple line, I always get several errors like:
The file is like this:
#Test
firstLine
secondLine
!p.p
*.*
And I want to add something like this:
(return \n)
!word
other (5 tab between "other" and "/usr/local") /usr/local
If it's not possible with sed, there are another options?
Thank you!
It doesn't sound like you need to use sed at all, maybe just cat with a heredoc:
cat >>test.conf <<EOF
whatever you want here
more stuff
EOF
>> opens test.conf in "append" mode, so lines are added to the bottom of the file, and the <<EOF is a heredoc that allows you to pass lines to cat via standard input.
To add literal tabs in the interactive terminal, you can use Ctrl-v followed by Tab.