sed and character return problem

Santiago · #1 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008

Hi,
I have a problem with sed. It doesn't recognize the "\n" character. It substitudes an "n", instead of introducing a new line.
This doesn't happend with print $ print "test \n \n" (it deos introduce two lines after hello)
(AIX)

$ sed s/bc/\n/g test.1 >test.2
$ cat test.1
bcdefg
abcdefgafj

$ more test.2
ndefg
andefgafj
The same happend with:
sed 's/bc/\n/g test.1' >test.2
sed "s/bc/\n/g" test.1 >test.2
sed s/"bc"/"\n"/g test.1 >test.2
Anybody has an idea?
thanks
S

avronius · #2 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008

Same question resolved here:
How to replace any char with newline char.

vidyadhar85 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-18-2008

this should work..

Quote:

sed -e 's/searchpattern/(press enter here)
/g' filename

manosubsulo · #4 (**permalink**) 09-19-2008

Code:

awk '{ sub("bc", "\n"); print }' File Name

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