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Subject: Re: Add a newline with sed
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:43:06 GMT
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In article <8vfs3i$38g$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  jlguirao@my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to find a string in a file and add a newline using sed. It is
> possible or is it better to use awk?
>
> Thanks

sed 's/string/str\^Jing/' testfile

^J is got by typing Ctrl-v Ctrl-j is sequence.
And ^J is to be escaped with a backslash (\).


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