The RedHat digest form of the redhat-list is severely hosed. Your message
just came today, though you sent it almost a week ago. The same thing
happened with a message *I* sent a week ago: it just appeared today,
although later messages have appeared previously. Perhaps you've
already received some suggestions, but I offer these anyhow:
sed doesn't join lines unless you try very hard to make it do so (or it's
broken).
It normally reads the input, one line at a time and runs all the commands
in sequence on that line. You *can* append multiple lines to the buffer
and delete the embedded newlines, but it doesn't happen gratuitously.
Were you working, on Linux, with a file that was generated on a Unix
machine or some "foreign" file format such as DOS, Windoze, RSX-11, VMS,
CP/M, :-) ...? Perhaps there's some disagreement between sed and the
file on what constitutes a "line". Try "cat -v -e sm.html | less".
That will show up any strange characters, and each line should end with
"$" which is how that 'cat' command shows newline characters.
It would be helpful if you showed us the content of 'substitutions.sed'
or at least a representative sample.
Many Unix editors which, like me, are of the "do what l tell you, not
what you THINK I meant" persuasion, don't insist on putting a Newline at
the end of the file and some, like Emacs, allow you to specify whether
you want it to add one, ask you, or quietly accept what you gave it.
Some LINE-ORIENTED utilities, like sed, will give you a complaint if the
last line doesn't have a newline and will not consider it to be a "line"
if it doesn't. Just edit the file with vi, Emacs, or whatever your
favorite editor might be, insert the newline and that warning will go
away.
pete
pete peterson
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> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:24:07 -0400
> From: Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: OT: help w/ sed
>
>
> I rearranged the layout of a webserver, and I need to fix URLs that are no
> longer correct in the html files. I wrote a sed script to do this, and it makes
> the substitutions correctly, but it strips the newlines of the ends of the
> lines so the output is one long line. Sed also issues a warning about now
> newline at the end of the file:
>
> $sed -f substitutions.sed sm.html
> sed: Missing newline at end of file somefile.html.
> <a bunch of output from sed that's one single line.... >
>
> How do I keep sed from removing the newlines at the end of each line? What is
> causing that error message?
>
> Prentice
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
> http://www.pppl.gov
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