On Friday 6 March 2009, 00:01, Adam Carter wrote: > > > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a > > > > > > does the same :) > > > > Nice... > > Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script > (sed "s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed > doesn't like putting the newline character as the "translated to" bit. > Installing GNU sed on the Solaris box sorted that out.
Or for the future, with seds that do not like \n in the rhs, you can do sed 's/;/\ /g'
