From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 23:58:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB8410656D8 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86CC18FC12 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 12219 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2009 23:58:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by v6.ibctech.ca with ESMTPA; 6 Feb 2009 23:58:46 -0000 Message-ID: <498CCE9C.3060200@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:58:20 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <498CBEBE.7080702@gmail.com> <20090206225619.GA75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CC0FC.1040706@gmail.com> <20090206232129.GB75180@dan.emsphone.com> <498CCBA9.6010207@gmail.com> <498CCC94.6080507@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <498CCC94.6080507@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: insert new line in files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:58:28 -0000 Adam Vande More wrote: >> I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail. > nevermind I see I have to \\ that as well. Okay now I'm going to try to > find a way to do this with find and xargs IMHO, this has become a job for Perl :) Steve