sed replacement

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Mon May 16 09:44:25 EDT 2005


On Monday 16 May 2005 9:31 am, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> BTW - That should have been:
>
> cat myfile | sed -e "s/text/\n\ntext/"
First, you don't need to use cat.
I just tried it on my system: (here is a fragment of the file I used)
-------------------------
collection currently include compilers for the Ada, C, C++, Objective
C, Chill, FORTRAN, and Java languages. Unlike utilities such as p2c,
this is a true compiler, not just a converter.
--------------------------
sed -e "s/Chill/\n\nChill/" gpc.README
The result is:
collection currently include compilers for the Ada, C, C++, Objective
C, 

Chill, FORTRAN, and Java languages. Unlike utilities such as p2c,
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