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Subject: sed replacement
From: wdr at TheWorld.com (William D Ricker)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:55:44 -0400 (EDT)
In-reply-to: <8bbaf88618514e82102932d2d648d22f@comcast.net> from "Robert La Ferla" at May 16, 2005 09:31:33 AM

> cat myfile | sed -e "s/text/\n\ntext/"

perl -i.bak -ple 's/text/\n\ntext/' myfile
will put old myfile in myfile.bak and myfile fixed in myfile.
omit -i.bak if you really really want it on stdout


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