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Old 09-18-2008
sed and character return problem
Hi,
I have a problem with sed. It doesn't recognize the "\n" character. It substitudes an "n", instead of introducing a new line.
This doesn't happend with print $ print "test \n \n" (it deos introduce two lines after hello)
(AIX)

$ sed s/bc/\n/g test.1 >test.2
$ cat test.1
bcdefg
abcdefgafj

$ more test.2
ndefg
andefgafj
The same happend with:
sed 's/bc/\n/g test.1' >test.2
sed "s/bc/\n/g" test.1 >test.2
sed s/"bc"/"\n"/g test.1 >test.2
Anybody has an idea?
thanks
S
# 2  
Old 09-18-2008
Same question resolved here:
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...line-char.html
# 3  
Old 09-18-2008
this should work..
Quote:
sed -e 's/searchpattern/(press enter here)
/g' filename
# 4  
Old 09-19-2008
Code:
awk '{ sub("bc", "\n"); print }' File Name

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