Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:12:18 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stupid sed question Message-ID: <B9F01732.F3A4%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <20021107154625.A92742@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On 11/7/02 12:46 PM, "Mathew Kanner" <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote: > What I would like is > echo abc | sed -e's,b,\n' to get > a > c A script of the form: echo abc | sed -e 's,b,\ ,' will work if the newline is escaped with a backslash and the remainder of the sed substitute is on the next line. If you run directly from the command line (not in a shell script) then you need two backslashes, the first one escapes the backslash for the interactive shell. Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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