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# 8  
Old 06-23-2005
If you use the octal value for newline it will work most of the time:

Code:
echo "hi \012 hi"

gives
Code:
hi
 hi

which means the newline character was embedded before the space in front of "hi".
# 9  
Old 06-23-2005
Thanks Perderabo
Hi Perderabo,

Thanks !!! it helped.

$ cat aa
String1

$ cat test
#!/bin/ksh
sed 's/String1/string0\
string1\
String2/' < aa

$ ./test
string0
string1
String2

Thanks a lot for the help!!!

Can u please explain what is the logic behind this ?

Thanks,

Sanish.
# 10  
Old 06-23-2005
Well I explained the syntax. What don't you understand?
# 11  
Old 06-23-2005
Sed command
Hi Perderabo,

My understanding was the comand A behaves as same as Command B, and the only difference is that the character "\" allow's the command to be spanned accross multiple lines.

Command A :

#!/bin/ksh
sed 's/String1/string0\
string1\
String2/' < aa

Command B :

#!/bin/ksh
sed 's/String1/string0string1String2/' < aa

Thanks,
Sanish.
# 12  
Old 06-23-2005
Well your understanding was wrong. Try them. ksh ignores backslashes inside single quotes. "print -r" will ignore all echo backslash esacapes. Try:
print -r 'a\
b'
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