Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:41:55 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] sed question Message-ID: <20040316034154.GB3419@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com> References: <4054DD10.5060504@stevenfettig.com> <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com>
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in message <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com>,
wrote Warren Block thusly...
>
> ...sed on other systems does handle \n and other literals in
> substitutions. It's annoying enough that I just use Perl instead.
>
> perl -pe 's/ /\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt
>
> which actually would be better as
>
> perl -pe 's/\s./\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt
^
^
Why do you have '.' after '\s'? Did you mean '+' instead?
- Parv
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