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# 1  
Old 11-01-2011
Search_Replace with a Carriage Return
Hey folks,
I've been working on this for some time. Seems simple, but I'm stumped.

I need the following data format:
Code:
New_York:Commercial
         Geology
         Geophysics
         Petrophysics
         Production_Engineering
         Reservoir_Engineering
Pasadena:Commercial
         Geology
         Geophysics
         Petrophysics
         Production_Engineering
         Reservoir_Engineering

To look like this:
Code:
New_York
        Commercial
        Geology
        Geophysics
        Petrophysics
        Production_Engineering
        Reservoir_Engineering
Pasadena
        Commercial
        Geology
        Geophysics
        Petrophysics
        Production_Engineering
        Reservoir_Engineering

I've used this command successfully in VI:
Code:
s/:/^M        /g

But cannot seem to get it right within a script. I use the following line:
Code:
sed -e 's/:/^M      /g' filename

but it will remove the "New_York:" which is what I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You!
# 2  
Old 11-01-2011
You can try:
Code:
tr ':' '\n' < File

# 3  
Old 11-01-2011
Are you sure it's actually removing it, and not just a display issue?

e.g. this works fine on cygwin:
Code:
$ sed -e 's/:/\n\t/g' x.txt
New_York
        Commercial
         Geology
         Geophysics
         Petrophysics
         Production_Engineering
         Reservoir_Engineering
Pasadena
        Commercial
         Geology
         Geophysics
         Petrophysics
         Production_Engineering
         Reservoir_Engineering

# 4  
Old 11-01-2011
Carriage return and newline are not the same thing.

Carriage return moves to the beginning of the line but does not move it down -- probably causing the display issue you saw.

Newline, \n, moves it down one line and moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
# 5  
Old 11-02-2011
I'm working this through Exceed on Demand. It might be a display issue, but this script will be deployed globally and all that will be using it will be seeing what I'm seeing.

Using the "sed -e 's/:/\n\t/g' " removed the ":" but didn't place a new line. However, the tr command worked.

Thanks!
# 6  
Old 11-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by leepet01
Using the "sed -e 's/:/\n\t/g' " removed the ":" but didn't place a new line. However, the tr command worked.

Thanks!
You might have a crummy old sed which doesn't even support \n.
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