Bourne Shell : How to insert some lines of text to a given line number of a file

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I'm writing a Bourne Shell script to automatically edit a source file.

I get the line number I need like this:

line=`sed -n '/#error/=' test.h`
line=$[$line - 2]

Now I want to insert a few lines of text after this line number, how can I do this?

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