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Re: sed3.02 win32
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: sed3.02 win32 |
Date: |
12 Sep 2001 15:56:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.106 |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
|> > From: "Christoph SIEBERT" <address@hidden>
|> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:37:03 +0200
|> >
|> > FYI:
|> > It appears that there is still a problem with the newline "\n" in the sed
version 3.02 for win32.
|> > The command I tried to run is
|> > cmd> set | grep -i "^PATH=" | sed -e s/;/\n/
|> > but a newline could not be inserted where the semicolon separator was
found.
|>
|> Sed doesn't support the \n notation. I'm guessing that on Unix, the
|> shell converts that into a literal newline character.
The Bourne shell does not do that either. If you want a newline you have
to insert it literally (directly or via variable substitution).
Andreas.
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