Re: don't work '\n' in Gnu SED for windows

[Paolo Bonzini]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi, everybody.
>
> I'm trying to change some string in a text file with GNU SED(FOR
> WINDOWS)
> but it seems that '\n' is not work!!

From http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Execution-Cycle.html

sed operates by performing the following cycle on each line of input: 
first, sed reads one line from the input stream, removes any trailing 
newline, and places it in the pattern space.  Then commands are 
executed.  When the end of the script is reached, the contents of 
pattern space are printed.



This means that newlines do *not* get into the pattern space.  You 
cannot expect to use \n to match multiple lines of input.  There are 
some tricks to do this however -- for more info look on 
http://sed.sf.net/grabbag for tutorials and example scripts.

(To other people on bug-gnu-utils: I'm considering putting this in the 
NON-BUGS section of the manual.  Do you have any suggestion on the wording?)

Paolo