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Old 03-21-2008
sed command error

Hi,

Could some one help me please ?

When I execute this command

# paste -s -d"^m" swagent.log | sed '{s/\"\./\"\.\n/g}' > swagent.new

I get this error.

sed: Function {s/\"\./\"\.\n/g} cannot be parsed.


Many Thanks in advance

Regards,

Nagu
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Old 03-21-2008
Try it without those braces.
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