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Replace REPLACEME in fileB with the contents of fileA with " " prepended to each line, save to fileC
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awk_replace_string_with_file.sh
# Replace REPLACEME in fileB with the contents of fileA with " " prepended to each line, save to fileC
awk 'NR==FNR { a[n++]=" "$0; next }
/REPLACEME/ {for (i=0; i<n; ++i) print a[i]; next }
1' fileA fileB > fileC
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