10-08-2007
sed - adding new line
I want to use sed to look for spaces in text and when find one move the next word to the next line.
I used:
sed 's/ /\n/g' out > new
However when there is more than one space between two words it adds more lines between them. And I just want the words to be one under another. How can I change that?
Thanks
I find out how to do this:
sed '/^$/d'
However when I'm using emacs and put this two commands in one line they don't want to work:
#! /bin/bash
sed 's/ /\n/g' | sed '/^$/d' out > new
What I'm doing wrong???
Last edited by sovixi; 10-08-2007 at 08:56 PM..
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NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
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Read sed(1) command from file.
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HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
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SEE ALSO
shtool(1), sed(1).
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