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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
Message-ID: <557@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 11:22:08 EST
Article-I.D.: tektools.557
Posted: Mon Nov 18 11:22:08 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Nov-85 00:49:26 EST
References: <376@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: sed
Summary: 

In article <376@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) writes:
> 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.

In Bourne shell:

	sed 's/foo/\
	foo/g'

In C-shell, you'll need a second backslash:

	sed 's/foo/\\
	foo/g'

--Jerry Peek, UNIX Training Instructor, Tektronix, Inc.
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