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Re: Malfunction with SED (CONTINUED)

2000-06-14 15:33:58


On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, SoloCDM wrote:

Matt Dunford wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, SoloCDM wrote:

When combining two lines as one in sed's regexp/condition, is it
possible to combine the lines with a return in between?  I tried the
following types in the regexp/condition to simulate the return:

       [=\n=], [=\r=], \n, \r, \015, .*, [:space:], [:cntrl:],
[:print:], [:blank:]

s/some text/&\n/  won't work

s/some text/&\
/

Did you use your Alt-<numeric_keypad> to get the blank return; if so,
what number did you input?

Why the ampersand?

Will HTML tags work (e.g. &nbsp;)?

no, I just typed \<return> -- no special character.  I can't get this to
work from the command line though.  It works in a file.

The ampersand just adds what you matched:
's/some text/&\n/' and 's/some text/some text\n/' do the same thing.
Sounds like you need to do some major reading up on sed!

to add an html space 's/ /\&nbsp;/g'


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