[linux] Add a prefix string to beginning of each line

If you need to prepend a text at the beginning of each line that has a certain string, try following. In the following example, I am adding # at the beginning of each line that has the word "rock" in it.

sed -i -e 's/^.*rock.*/#&/' file_name

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