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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting UNIX in the MacIntosh (for sed people) Post 302090853 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Wednesday 27th of September 2006 05:32:30 PM
Old 09-27-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Laurel Maury
Hi,

I'm trying to use sed to process some files on Macs running OSX. Anyone know anything about Macs and sed?

Here's the problem

sed 's/^/ /g' test_file > endfile

(there are spaces betwen the second and third /, but the forum software compresses them)

This should put spaces at the beginning of every line (I'm fairly sure, tho' not positive about this). But it's only putting spaces at the beginning of the first line of a file.
I created a test file, and this worked fine for all lines in the document.

A few questions:
Which OS X version,
what application created your text file,
does it work on a simple* test document?

*pico mysed
this
is
a
text
file

then sed 's/^/ /g' mysed > mysed2

I copied the command you tried, from this web page, and inserted a couple more spaces, changed the file names and voila.

My guess is it will work if you use pico, or some other strictly text editor for the test document, but not for the specific text document you tested previously.
Why? Because it probably is not "strictly" a unix text document. It probably has some whacky formating code or somesuch, maybe it doesn't even have \n in it. Maybe the line endings are \r. That might cause the problem you're seeing.
There is a way to see these codes, but I don't recall the commands. Anyone?
 

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CH_LAB(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 CH_LAB(1)

NAME
ch_lab -- change/copy label files SYNOPSIS
ch_lab [-S frame spacing] [-start time] [-end time] [-ext file extension] [-extract file] [-extend time] [-f sample frequency] [-lf sample frequency] [-itype file type] [-key key file] [-lablist list of labels] [-length time] [-map map file] [-name feature name] [-class class] [-o output file] [-otype file type] [-pad high | low] [-pos list of labels] [-q timestep] [-range range] [-sed sed file] [fl shift time delta] [-style output stype] [-vocab vocab file] [-verify] [-nopath] [-base] [-combine] [-divide] [-h] input files ... DESCRIPTION
ch_lab copies from one or more input label files to an output label file, optionally performing various operations along the way. The following option flags are recognized: -h Print a summary of usage to standard output. -S frame spacing frame spacing of output -start time start time, in seconds, for label extraction -end time end time, in seconds, for label extraction -ext file extension filename extension to use for multiple output files -extract file extract a single file from a list of files -extend time extend track file by time seconds beyond label file -f sample frequency sample frequency of label file -lf sample frequency sample frequency for labels -itype file type type of input label file: esps htk ogi -key key file key label file -lablist list list of labels to be considered as blank -length time length of track produced, in seconds -map map file label mapping file -name feature name eg. Fo Phoneme -class class name of class defined in op file -o output file output file name -otype file type output file type: xmg, ascii, esps, htk -pad high | low pad with high or low values -pos list list of labels to be regarded as 'pos' -q timestep quantize label timings to nearst value -range range difference between high and low values -sed sed file perform regex editing using sed file fl shift time delta shift the times of the labels -style output style output style e.g. track -vocab file file containing list of words in vocabulary -verify check that only labels in vocab file are in label file -nopath ignore pathnames when searching label lists -base use base filenames for lists of label files -combine -divide SEE ALSO
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