Re: Find a string in a file and add a sequential counter to that word

>     1 Class in COER 112
>        Label "Microcomputer Operating Systems";
>     1 Class in COER 116
>       Label "Microcomputer Hardware";
>     1 Class in COER 125
>       Label "Seminar";
>
> I want it to ultimately look like this:
>
> 1 Class in COER 112
>       Label 1 "Microcomputer Operating Systems";
>     1 Class in COER 116
>       Label 2 "Microcomputer Hardware";
>     1 Class in COER 125
>       Label 3 "Seminar";
>

sed '/Class/N;s/\n/JABBERWOCKY/' /tmp/test.in | \
sed = | \
sed 'N;s/\(^[0-9][0-9]*\)\n\(.*\)JABBERWOCKY\(.*Label\)\(.*\)/\2\
\3 \1\4/'

Tested.

But probably this is more sane:

awk '{sub(/Label /,"&"++x" ")};1' /tmp/test.in

-Derek