Re: Subject:sed Insert line does not work

[Paolo Bonzini]

> sed -e "32i\inserted" tmp.txt expecting to insert "inserted" at line 32, but I get the error 
> sed: -e expression #1, char 5: Extra characters after command

What's the version of sed?  One of these two should work:

sed -e "32i\" -e inserted tmp.txt
sed -e 32iinserted tmp.txt

The latter is a GNU extension present since GNU sed v3.02.80 (a beta for 
sed v4, the last one released by Ken Pizzini which is co-maintaining sed 
with me).

Paolo