On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:22 +0530, Noor Mulla wrote: > In the below cmd \n is not going to newline.. is the syntax fine > > > > sed -e "s/^load\ data/unrecoverable\nload\ data/g" \ Hmm. It depends on the sed-version, it seems. It works fine on the linux-boxes I have tried, but apparently not in your version of sed. Waldirio suggested using ------ -e "1i UNRECOVERABLE" ------ to insert UNRECOVERABLE at line 1, maybe that works better in your environment. --Kjetil -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l