Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:55:03 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] sed question Message-ID: <20040315205409.A40180@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20040316034154.GB3419@moo.holy.cow> References: <4054DD10.5060504@stevenfettig.com> <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com> <20040316034154.GB3419@moo.holy.cow>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Parv wrote: > in message <20040314164347.X35552@wonkity.com>, > wrote Warren Block thusly... > > > > perl -pe 's/\s./\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt > ^ > ^ > > Why do you have '.' after '\s'? Did you mean '+' instead? Oops--you're correct. \s+ for one or more whitespace characters. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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