Hi,

I have a file which contains many occurances of a string say "hellosunil".

I want to insert a newline charcater after all the "hellosunil" strings in the file.

trying to use sed,

sed -e 's/hellosunil/\\nhellosunil/g' file1

sed help says u cannot substitute a regular expression using new line char. so the above thing does not work?

how can i achieve this using sed or any other command.

echo abababab | sed 's/b/\
/g'

will replace all of the b's with newline characters. I really typed a newline after the backslash. This makes the sed command a two line command.

thanks a lot it has worked

using awk:

awk '{gsub(/hellosunil/,"\nhellosunil");print}'

I tried the foll. command:

awk '{gsub(/<eCRMver1:Consumer>/, "\n<eCRMver1:Consumer>"); gsub(/<\/eCRMver1:message>/, "\n<\/eCRMver1:message>");print}' $input_file > $tem
p_output_file1

ERROR:

awk: 0602-581 The result <?xml version="1.0" of the gsub function
cannot be longer than 10,239 bytes.
The input line number is 1. The file is /appl/ecrmhome/gb53/VSC.xml.
The source line number is 1.


my VSC.xml is 35000 (and it can be much more ???)

Please suggest.

taking the entire file in a variable and applying sed WORKS...

total_xml_msg=`cat $input_file`
echo $total_xml_msg | sed 's/<eCRMver1:Consumer>/\
<eCRMver1:Consumer>/g' > $temp_output_file1

good for the time being...

Try:
sed 's/<eCRMver1:Consumer>/\
<eCRMver1:Consumer>/g' < $input_file > $output_file1