On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:36:08AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
> |/fl# echo foo | sed 's/$/^M/'
> |> sed: garbled command s/$/
> |/fl#
>
> I think the ash you have does a bad job of parsing, not quoting things
> inside 's. You could try something like
>
> echo foo | sed 's/$/|/' | tr '|' '\015'
>
> assuming | doesn't appear in the text. Or maybe some control character
> that doesn't confuse ash. Works for me with ^A.
>
alas, no tr on tomsrtbt... deeply depressing
there is however, mawk which claims to be 100% 1988 awk complient.
As yet I am awk illiterate, but I've got the book open and I'm about
to become an awker/awkoligist/awkeneer whatever. Unless somebody can
save me.
g
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