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# 8  
Old 12-12-2005
Code:
sed -e 's_.*_"&\\r\\n"_g' xyz

I dont know which part of the sed statement you dont understand. So I shall start from the beginning.

Consider this sed -e 's/regexp/replacement/' statement

The underscore's are the delimiters that can be used instead of /. It can be anything you want. You should remember that, once you use a particular delimiter, you should stick with that till the end.

.* refers to eveything that sed has read. In short, the whole line.

&: The replacement may contain the special character & to refer to that portion of the pattern space which matched the regex.

The others are quite simple. \\r. The extra preceding \ is to escape the next character. And g is the global flag, which in this case is not needed.
# 9  
Old 12-12-2005
thanks a lot , actually i am new user of sed so explaination from begining has helped me a lot.

Regards,
Gauri
# 10  
Old 12-12-2005
The documentation given in the man pages helps.

You can also check out Orielly's sed & awk
# 11  
Old 12-12-2005
Hi Mona,

Thanks for the sugesstion. But it is not working.

Regrads
Gauri


Quote:
Originally Posted by mona
Hi Gauri,

Could you please try Vino's solution. "^" is the anchor symbol which matches the pattern in the beginning of the line.

Code:
sed -e 's_.*_"&\\r\\n"_g' xyz

I don't think the global flag is required.
# 12  
Old 12-12-2005
thanks i will read that. It looks like full documentation.

Regards
Gauri
# 13  
Old 12-12-2005
Hi Vino,

Again i am here for the same problem..As u sugessted it i working only for few files but i found in few lines i am having x8e in the end for that this sed is not working and givng " in three places in a single line like as



I googled for this special character string and found that it should be mapped in some header file.

Can u please let me know how to change my origial solution.

I guess solution is something Mona gave....

Thanks & Regard
Gauri
# 14  
Old 12-13-2005
Back to square one.

Could you provide us with a few lines that do not respond well to the sed statement ?
 
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