Like to be able to use sed to add new line after line match

[Gen2ly]

Been looking around for this but haven't been able to find anything.

I'd like to be able to add a new line after matching text in a line.

For example, say I got:


#output databases: mysql, snort, password yourpassword, more, blah

and after this line I'd like to add:


#output databases: mysql, snort, password yourpassword, more, blah
darn right

So far I got:


sed -i -e 's`^#output database$`#out$ \
darn right`g' file

As you can see I'm at a loss as what the second value should be. I'd like to be able to match this generically. Is this possible? Also does the first value (^output database$) appear right?

[Gen2ly]

Ah i got it (Gentoo Developer's guides (http://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/sed/index.html) are awesome):


sed -i -e `^text to match$/a text to add on new line` file

Gotta like sed, Doh!

[da_steve123]

Thanks :D
Btw heads up, the forwardslash has been removed in the above but the link is good :D