Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:38:21 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: sed and newlines Message-ID: <4.1.19990317173532.00a4cee0@mail-r> In-Reply-To: <199903172339.SAA06674@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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At 03:39 PM 3/17/99 , Crist J. Clark wrote: ... >If I am reading this correctly, > >% sed 's/\n/ /' file > >Should take the file and subsitute three spaces in place of every >newline. However, it does not. It does not seem to understand '\n.' ... >Am I missing something obvious? Or is sed broken? Have you tried escaping your \ ? As in sed 's/\\n/ /' file When I've had problems with escaping things I (1) used echo in place of the command to see what the shell did to the command line I was giving (2) changed my shell's globbing options (read the manpage for your shell on that). --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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