sed command

kwigibo · 04-20-2002, 10:55 PM

EDIT:

Hi, I've changed the whole post because I fixed the problem, but Im still stumped on another part of sed.

How do you replace a character with a newline character?

I need to replace colons with newlines.

kwigibo

ngomong · 04-21-2002, 03:23 PM

Just a suggestion:

When you ask a question and solve the problem... you should leave your post intact, and hopefully post how you solved it. Lots of us out here are learning from each other's solutions.

Thanks!

Robert0380 · 04-21-2002, 03:31 PM

i second that

ngomong · 04-21-2002, 04:11 PM

To answer your question...

The replace portion of sed doesn't handle special characters as you would expect. Instead, create a file, replace.sed, with the following:

s/:/\
/g

Then, at the prompt:
sed -f replace.sed file.txt > newfile.txt

So, instead of \n, you're explicitly inserting the newline.