[OT] sed question

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Rob Ellis wrote:

> This works with sed in /bin/sh and ksh:
>
> sed -e 's/  */\
> /g' my_test_text_document.txt
>
> I.e., escape an actual newline.

I used to do that, or include an actual newline in a script, but it just
seems wrong from maintainability and readability standpoints.

It seems slightly better to get a newline in a shell variable and then
use that.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA