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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Putting in newlines using sed
Message-ID: <1688@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 15:15:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 15:15:40 1985
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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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.
>
>...  So then I tried using to do the following:
>	s/foo/^Jfoo/g

I had no problem, in csh:

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

in sh:

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


(don't type the prompts)  The trick is that sed will accept a newline in
one of it's patterns if it is escaped with a backslash.  The csh example
needs a second backslash to tell the shell that the command line is not
complete.