[OT] sed question
Steven N. Fettig
freebsd at stevenfettig.com
Sun Mar 14 14:31:04 PST 2004
Sorry for posting an off-topic question to the list, but this is
somethin that has been driving me nuts for weeks now and I can't figure
it out. I want to pass a text file through sed that replaces all
whitespaces with a carriage return. I.e., if I have the file
my_test_text_document.txt that is a few paragraphs of writing, I want to
take the following input:
I have just written five paragraphs of absolute jibberish and wish that
I could get sed to work the way that I want. Oh how this question has
plagued me!
And have sed output:
I
have
just
written
five
paragraphs
of
absolute
jibberish
and
... you get the point.
I can't figure out what the newline character is... I've tried \n \r &\,
etc. with no avail. I run the following:
sed 's/[ ]/\n/g' my_test_text_document.txt
and the output never has a newline added regardless of what I have
substituted \n with. I have also used " instead of ' and that hasn't
helped...
Sorry for the question, but I'd really appreciate the help!
Steve Fettig
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