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From: rt@cpsc53.UUCP (Ron Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
Message-ID: <100111@cpsc53.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 21:33:26 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 21:33:26 1985
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> I have a process putting out lines that look something like this:
> 	fjlkjf foo (a b c) jflkjf (jfkj)  foo (x y a) fjjfj
> I want to break up the line so that each "foo" followed by its
> parenthesized list of arguments appears on a separate line.  I don't
> care what happens to the other "words;" they are eliminated in
> later processing.
> 
> As far as I can tell, there's no 
> way of writing the s/... line above with a *real* linefeed in place of the ^
> and J.
> 

With Sys V just type the following from the shell:

sed 's/foo/\
> foo/g' filename

The backslash escapes your newline producing a series of lines
all that begin with foo.


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