04-24-2007
Yes, the last sed command you posted with double quotes worked fine. But sed replacements using \n as line break don't work.
It turns out that the default sed and tr on my system are probably quite old, since /usr/ucb was before /usr/bin and /bin in my PATH. When using a different tr, \n as replacement worked. When using the default (/usr/ucb/tr), it only works if the replacement is \012 instead of \n. However, \012 won't work at all with sed. I don't quite understand this - perhaps it is the result of a bad combination of tr (or sed) version and type/version of shell?
Is there a way to get sed and/or tr to print which version it is?
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