Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:30:40 -0600 From: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] sed question Message-ID: <4054DD10.5060504@stevenfettig.com>
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Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all whitespaces with a carriage return. I.e., if I have the file my_test_text_document.txt that is a few paragraphs of writing, I want to take the following input: I have just written five paragraphs of absolute jibberish and wish that I could get sed to work the way that I want. Oh how this question has plagued me! And have sed output: I have just written five paragraphs of absolute jibberish and ... you get the point. I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\, etc. with no avail. I run the following: sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt and the output never has a newline added regardless of what I have substituted \n with. I have also used " instead of ' and that hasn't helped... Sorry for the question, but I'd really appreciate the help! Steve Fettig
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