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From: j@itntl.bhp.com.au (Jason Tyler)
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Subject: Re: inserting a newline w/ sed
Date: 13 Jul 1997 05:56:31 GMT
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Todd Hartman (thartman@austin.ibm.com) wrote:
: Can anybody tell me the best way to insert a newline with sed?
: 
: Say I want to take the matching pattern and put it on a line of its own.

This script puts newlines around lines containing "jason":

	sed '/jason/{
		a\
		.
		i\
		.
	}'

See the man page for descriptions of the 'a' and 'i' commands.

: Sed doesn't know what \n is (as far as I can tell).

I think it does, but iff the '\n' appears in a regular expression.

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