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Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> writes: > BTW - That should have been: > > cat myfile | sed -e "s/text/\n\ntext/" > > but it still doesn't work... I would do this: (warning: there are embedded newlines here) sed -e 's/text/\ \ text/' myfile Let me be more illustrative: sed -e 's/text/\<-LINE ENDS HERE \<-LINE ENDS HERE text/' myfile That's how it is with sed. OBTW, with some versions of sed your original might even work. I am interested in portable sed scripts though, so I would never rely upon this fact. In contrast, here is how it would be in Perl: perl -pe 's/text/\n\ntext/' myfile Hope this helps. Just another Perl hacker, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit -- Tom Waits
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