On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:00:09PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:32:52AM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: > > hi all! > > > > The freebsd versions of sed contained a bug/regression, when \n char > > can i subsitue, gsed not affected with this bug: > > > FreeBSD xxx 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 > > UTC 2010 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > i386 > > a...@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/\n/g > > ana > > a...@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/'\n'/g > > ana > > Different than GNU is not a bug. > > I have 7.3 here. It behaves as the above, which is how the man page says it > should work. The following is how the man page specifies you can substitute > a newline, by prefacing a quoted actual newline with a backslash: > > $ echo axa | sed 's/x/\ > > /g' > a > a > > That's how I remember classic sed behaving (Unix v7 or thereabouts.) > -- Clifton
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