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# 1  
Old 12-02-2003
sed command problem
hi

I am using "sed" command to find and replace a text in a file.
if the searched string is in the last line with no newline character in the end, it doesn't retrive this line. What is the solution to this?
i am using sed as:

sed -e "s/abc/ABC/g" test.txt

where i am replacing abc with ABC
# 2  
Old 12-02-2003
why are you using -e ?
It should work without that.

Tine
# 3  
Old 12-02-2003
Seems that sed only works on complete lines, so perhaps use awk instead...
Code:
awk '{gsub("abc","ABC")};1' test.txt

The side effect is that the last line will be properly terminated.
# 4  
Old 12-02-2003
hi tine,
i have tried it w/o -e option also but it doesnt work ..

thanx
# 5  
Old 12-02-2003
hi ygor,
my unix OS is Sun Solaris 5.8 and it does not support command gsub .
H awk cant be used i guess
neways
thanx a lot
# 6  
Old 12-02-2003
Add a newline to the end of the file. You can see the missing new line using od. Do the following:

echo >> test.txt && sed -e "s/abc/ABC/g" test.txt

Cheers,

Keith
# 7  
Old 12-02-2003
On Solaris use nawk
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