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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: vi and sed questions
Message-ID: <1646@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 89 01:29:03 GMT
References: <4370002@hpavla.HP.COM>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <4370002@hpavla.HP.COM>, rowland@hpavla.HP.COM (Fred Rowland) writes:
> sed question

> The file used in the above example [ie, the vi question] is a mail
> list which has to be converted into labels.  I add three @ symbols to
> the end of each line, then convert all of them to newlines.  I can do
> this in vi but I get substitution overflows as the file grows
> considerably in size.  I would prefer to use sed,

I don't know how to do that with sed.  But why not just use tr?
"tr @ '\012'" should work fine.

					der Mouse

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