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From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] sed question
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:30:40PM -0600, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
> 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:

how about using ctrl-v to get a literal - 
if you do ctrl-v, the next keystroke will be input in literally.  so, do 

sed 's/ /<ctrl-v><enter>/'

When I do that, it types in a "^M".  That method also works well for
using sed to insert tabs. 

Dan

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