How can I do so? I have multiple e.g. foobar patterns in my file, how can I add after e.g. the 4th one some_text?
解决方案
Does the following work for you?
sed ':a;$!{N;ba};s/\(foobar\)/\1\nsome_text/4' inputfile
For the input:
$ cat inputfile
line
foobar
foobar
foobar
line
foobar
line
foobar
line
foobar
line
This would generate
$ sed ':a;$!{N;ba};s/\(foobar\)/\1\nsome_text/4' inputfile
line
foobar
foobar
foobar
line
foobar
some_text
line
foobar
line
foobar
line
Use -e on FreeBSD:
sed -e :a -e '$!N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\(foobar\)/\1\nsome_text/4' inputfile