Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 22:12:55 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sed question Message-ID: <199707141412.WAA00782@vas.tomsk.su>
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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" 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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