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From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.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


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