07-14-2009
Sed doesnt replaces the content in file
Hi,
Thanks a lot .
I observed that it works for well formatted file. In one of the server I had the file where in the content of the file is in single line( cannot open the file from vi, vi says line too long). When I executed the same sed command on this file, it dumps nothing to the file, where in when i executed the same sed on my system having well formated file( means to say it has multiple lines) it works fine.
As far as i know, sed should work irrespective of file format , but reality it doesnt !!
Any pointer will be of great help
---------- Post updated 07-14-09 at 11:36 AM ---------- Previous update was 07-13-09 at 08:15 PM ----------
In the man page, its mentioned that "
"The hold space is limited to 8192 characters."
Is this the reason for sed to fail to perform the task mentioned in previous post....
---------- Post updated at 09:51 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:36 AM ----------
It worked finally , after appending "\n" to the file... :-)
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