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Originally Posted by junior-helper

>I'm on SunOS 5.10

Change awk to nawk and try again.

> doesn't work for me either (Can't open -i)

-i is an option for in place editing. It's a feature of GNU sed, thus it's not available in default installations of commercial Unixes, afaik.

Solution: sed ... file >file.tmp && mv file.tmp file

\n is another feature of GNU sed Smilie

Solution:

Code:

sed s,"My Name","\\
My Name",g file

Btw. the commands mentioned in post 2, 3 and 4 produce an empty line on the top of the output.

Nice, those both work on SunOS unix now

Hopefully OP get's a solution that works for him.

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