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Subject: Re: sed question
To: vas@vas.tomsk.su (Victor A. Sudakov)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:41:46 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199707141412.WAA00782@vas.tomsk.su> from "Victor A. Sudakov" at "Jul 14, 97 10:12:55 pm"
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In a previous message, Victor A. Sudakov said:
> Hello.
> 
> I understand that my question is not FreeBSD specific, it is rather generic.
> However, there are so many unix gurus here ;-)
> 
> So, if I want to replace newlines in a file with spaces, it would be natural
> to run such a sed script:
> 
> sed "s/\n/ /g"

sed "s/^J/ /g"

should work. That's Ctl-J not ^J
> 
> However it does not work and it should not work, as the man page states,
> that the newline characters are not allowed in replacement strings.
> 
> So, what should I do?
> 
> And a related question: is there any good source of information on sed?
> Probably with examples? The thing seems to be very powerful and I wish to
> learn it, but the man page is too spartan.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov
> http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm
> 
> 


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