sed replacement

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

The obvious way:
gordon at bowtie gordon $ cat foo 
text
text
text
text
text
gordon at bowtie gordon $ cat foo | sed "s/^/\n/"

text

text

text

text

text

The way from my link: Amusingly, it didn't work. Thanks, the Internet! :--)

On 5/16/05, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > 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,
> > -------------------------------------------
> 
> Jerry - this isn't working on my system.  Example:
> [jkinz at redline jkinz]$ cat foo
> text
> text
> text
> text
> [jkinz at redline jkinz]$ cat foo | sed -e "s/^/\n\n/"
> nntext
> nntext
> nntext
> nntext
> 
> Note - no new lines.  also tried
> 's.  Any ideas as to what in the
> local environment might cause this?
> 
> my LANG=en_US
> 
> 
> --
> Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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