Re: How can I use sed to insert a character into a file?

* 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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