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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 22:13:24 +0100
From:      Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mat@cnd.mcgill.ca
Subject:   Re: stupid sed question
Message-ID:  <20021107221324.6d9f92bd.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021107154625.A92742@cnd.mcgill.ca>
References:  <20021107154625.A92742@cnd.mcgill.ca>

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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:46:25 -0500
Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote:

Hi,

> 	I've been going nuts trying to figure out how to embed a
> newline in sed, and the man page just doesn't mean anything to me.
> 
> What I would like is
> 	echo abc | sed -e's,b,\n'  to get
> 	a
> 	c

How about echo abc | tr 'b' '\n' ?

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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