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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting insert new line at found chars Post 302240385 by era on Thursday 25th of September 2008 03:19:54 PM
Old 09-25-2008
You mean that the input data file has no newline at the end, and your sed will not cope with such a file?

There are some tools which will add a missing newline on the last line as a side effect, but with any luck, none of them are installed on your system. Try awk for a start. You might as well do the substitution in awk too then.

Code:
awk '{ gsub ("XXZZXXZZXX ", "\n") }1' file

Last edited by era; 09-25-2008 at 04:21 PM.. Reason: Missing 1 after close brace
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

line

line(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           line(1)

NAME

       line - read one line

SYNOPSIS

       line

DESCRIPTION

       The  line utility copies one line (up to and including a new-line) from the standard input and writes it on the standard output. It returns
       an exit status of 1 on EOF and always prints at least a new-line. It is often used within shell files to read from the user's terminal.

EXIT STATUS

       Exit status is:

       0        Successful completion

       >0       End-of-file on input.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sh(1), read(2), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          1 Feb 1995                                                             line(1)
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