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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed in vi - \r and \n not giving desired results Post 302533432 by DGPickett on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 04:06:44 PM
Old 06-23-2011
I generally use either \ or cntrl-v or \ + cntrl-v in front of enter for cr or nl in vi, aka 'visual ex', in ':' mode, which is raw 'ex', which is extended 'ed'.

BTW, sed, the stream editor, likes \n in regex (from field of substitute s) and \ + linefeed in substitute s to field, treats cr as a literal.

The other versions of vi (ex) and sed may honor \r and \n in other contexts, but as you note, it is spotty.

You can install in your own home dir a GNU version of vi and sed, and put it up-PATH to have a consistent home world. If on another ID, having your personal tools in a directory is handy, as you can add the dir up-PATH while you are there to get to your tools. You have to write scripts that do not assume your ID. You can share the tools to others easily, too. You just have to use the old tool where you cannot get to your version and in prod scripts.
 

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irssi

Irssi(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Irssi(1)

NAME

       Irssi - a modular IRC client for UNIX

SYNOPSIS

       irssi [-dv!?] [-c server] [-p port] [-n nickname] [-w password] [-h hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       Irssi  is a modular Internet Relay Chat client. It is highly extensible and very secure. Being a fullscreen, termcap based client with many
       features, Irssi is easily extensible through scripts and modules.

OPTIONS

       --config=FILE
	      use FILE instead of ~/.irssi/config.

       --home=PATH
	      PATH specifies the home directory of Irssi.  Default is ~/.irssi

       -c, --connect=SERVER
	      connects to SERVER

       -w, --password=PASSWORD
	      use PASSWORD for authentication.

       -p, --port=PORT
	      automatically connect to PORT on server.

       -!, --noconnect
	      disables autoconnecting.

       -n, --nick=NICKNAME
	      specify NICKNAME as your nick.

       -h, --hostname=HOSTNAME
	      use HOSTNAME for your irc session.

       -d, --dummy
	      use dummy terminal mode.

       -v, --version
	      display the version of Irssi.

       -?, --help
	      show a help message.

       --usage
	      display brief usage message.

SEE ALSO

       Irssi has been supplied with a huge amount of documentation. Check /help or look at the files contained by /usr/share/doc/irssi*

FILES

       /etc/irssi.conf
	      Global configuration file

       ~/.irssi/config
	      Personal configuration file

       ~/.irssi/config.autosave
	      Automatic save of the personal config file when it was changed externally

       ~/.irssi/default.theme
	      Default irssi theme

       ~/.irssi/away.log
	      Logged messages in away status

       /usr/share/irssi/help/
	      Directory including many help files

       /usr/share/irssi/scripts/
	      Global scripts directory

       /usr/share/irssi/themes/
	      Global themes directory

       ~/.irssi/scripts/
	      Default scripts directory

       ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun/
	      Directory containing links to scripts that should be loaded automatically on startup

       ~/.irssi/startup
	      File containing a list of commands to execute on startup

AUTHORS
/CREDITS
       Irssi was written by Timo Sirainen <cras@irssi.org>

       This manpage was written by Istvan Sebestyen <stevee@alphanet.ch> and Stefan Tomanek <stefan@pico.ruhr.de>

Irssi IRC client						  September 2002							  Irssi(1)
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