Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:36:30 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Jacob Rhoden <f3z@iprimus.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: using sed to insert \n at command line Message-ID: <20020618133630.7C6C8BB2C@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020618161418.020a7780@wheresmymailserver.com> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020618161418.020a7780@wheresmymailserver.com>
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On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:16 am, Jacob Rhoden wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Ive done some searching online and I cant work out how to do this, and I
| was wondering if any of you guys do? This is what I am doing, and when I
| try to insert a \n it doesnt work either way:
|
| input | sed 's/a string/\n/g' | output
| input | sed 's/a string/\\n/g' | output
|
| what is the correct way from the command prompt? Thanks for any help . .
In csh, at least, this is works:
% echo this is a string to test | sed 's/a string/\\
/g' | cat
this is
to test
Sed never uses \n for newline, it always uses an actual newline, escaped to
prevent it being interpretted to terminate the line.
The only problem in the shell is that the shell is using the same convention
so you have to get the newlines properly escaped to both. Other shells may
require different numbers of escapes, but the idea should be similar.
|
| Regards,
| Jacob
|
|
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