Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:23:40 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: gjb@acm.org, henrich@flnet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sed sillyness (stupid question?) Message-ID: <199812301223.HAA04916@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <19981230105616.7077.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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> > Why doesnt this work: > > > > sed 's,test,te\nst,' > > > > That is when test is found how come sed doesnt actually print the newline > > character? The man page claims it should: > > But you didn't do what the man page you quoted said: > > > A line can be split by substituting a newline character into it. > > To specify a newline character in the replacement string, precede > > it with a backslash. > > What you need is: > > sed 's,test,te\ > st,' > > In other words, you need a real backslash character followed by > a real newline character -- not some code for it like "\n". > > And, for the people who posted the wrong answers that I've seen > so far, please take the few seconds to check them first ... > You're right! For my response; sed complains about an unescaped new-line. [I only checked by using echo, didn't think sed would do any further checking...] Sorry to be partially correct... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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