Not necessarily an audio issue but could help with an audio application.

Hope this makes some sense. I'm not sure if I'm going to ask it properly.
Is there a way on Mac to add a line of text to a non .txt file at a certain point and automate it over hundreds of files? Basically I want to add text to hundreds of different files at a certain line without doing each file manually. Is there a way to automate this process?

Thanks for reading and for any help.

 

OSX is based on FreeBSD and has many command line tools on-board.
One solution is using the vi editor which can either jump to a specific string or jump to a specific line number.
Using vi -s {file with commands} you can automate the process given that you know some shell scripting.
Dunno if you know how to use vi?

There are alternatives like awk or sed (search for a specific line then add a line after it) or even simpler,
use the "head" and "tail" programs to split your file after the line you want to add another, like:

Say, you want to add a line after line number 42 of your file "temp". (Everything after "#" is a comment)
head -42 temp >output # creates new file "output" with first 42 lines
echo "Your-Line-To-Add" >>output # adds one line to file "output"
tail +43 temp >>output # adds the remaining lines (hence 43, not 42) from "temp" to "output"

Put this inside a script, iterate over the file names using a "for i in *" loop, replace "temp" by "$i" and "output" by "$i.out" and your script will process all files in the current directory.

Good luck!

 

Will give it a shot but that looks exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you very much fiction. I truly appreciate it.