Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:50:40 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Steven N. Fettig" <freebsd@stevenfettig.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] sed question Message-ID: <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4054DD10.5060504@stevenfettig.com> References: <4054DD10.5060504@stevenfettig.com>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
> I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\,
> etc. with no avail. I run the following:
>
> sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt
>From the sed man page:
"2. The escape sequence \n matches a newline character embedded in
the pattern space. You can't, however, use a literal newline
character in an address or in the substitute command."
I think this is a BSD thing, and 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
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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