On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 at 10:14am (+0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to replace the letter "-r" with "-r new line"
>
> my command is like this
>
> # cat file |sed 's/-r/-r \n/g' > file2
>
> the result I get is "-r" is replace to be "-r n"
> what have I done wrong.
>
Sed wants you to use a literal newline char preceded by a \... So you could
do...
# cat file | sed 's/-r/-r\
> /g' > file2
... or
# cat file | sed 's/-r/-r\^J/g' > file2
where the ^J the is a literal ctrl-j which can be insterted by pressing
ctrl-v immediatly before hand to tell bash you want the next key press to be
inserted and not interpreted.
I guess which one you go with depends weither you want to do this on the
command line or in a script.
M.
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