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From: Parv <parv@pair.com>
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in message <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com>,
wrote Warren Block thusly...
>
> ...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
                ^
                ^

Why do you have '.' after '\s'?  Did you mean '+' instead?


  - Parv

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