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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
Message-ID: <1900017@ccvaxa>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 12:07:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 12:07:00 1985
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece    Nov 18 11:07:00 1985


> This is on BSD 4.2...  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.  /* Written 12:29 pm  Nov 15, 1985 by michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP
> in ccvaxa:net.unix */
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You're just not quoting enough.  The cshell is grabbing your
quote character.  The command 
	sed 's/foo/\\^Jfoo/g' filename
where '^J' is the actual control-J character, and filename is
the name of your file (piping in will work fine).

You could also put the command in a file, with just one backslash.

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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