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Can you try it with the -e on SunOS?

More straight forward:

# echo 'asdasdada<cr>aasdsad<cr><cr>asdasdfsdfs<cr><cr><cr>asdsada<cr>adasd<cr>daasdaasd<cr><cr><cr>'|sed 's/\(<cr>\)\{1,\}/<cr>/g'

result:
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m/[[:alpha:]]{2}[[:digit:]]-[[:alpha:]]{2}[[:digit:]]/

Use a quoted here document. Make sure you quote your identifier or the quotes will still give you problems.

You can tell when you have done it right because you don't have to type Ctrl-D after you...

I noticed you didn't seem to get a response that addressed the case of the logical CSV line being broken over some number other than 3 lines.
The code I provide works with the logical CSV broken...

awk '{if(NR==2)$2=100;print $0}' input

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Type 'man awk' and 'man bash' at the command line for complete...

Is the value you want to replace always the second value in the second row? Or is it the only nonzero value in the file? Do the files only have 3 rows?

This does it all. Remove parts to do one or the other.
awk '/^5/||(NR==2){for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if($i=="x")$i="y";print $0};/^[^5]/&&(NR!=2)' input

Use Automator on Mac OS X. Create a new application not a workflow.

In Automator under utilities add a run shell script action and underneath it add a run applescript if you want to see your...

Try it with the triple quoted backslash to see if it works.
\\\\
instead of single quoted
\\
It would help if you showed the out put of what doesn't work. Including the output of the echo of $URL.

printf print without a newline
NF?$0:"\n" a conditional expression.
test_condition ? true_result : false_result
NF return 0 for blank lines. Zero is considered false.
$0 returns the whole...

You can also simplify the URL variable assignment like so:
URL=`sed -ne '/client.url/{s/^.*=//,s%/%\\\\/%g,p}' temp.txt`
Explanation:
-n don't print lines by default
/client.url/ Act only on...