Re: sed

[Andreas Schwab]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:26:22AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
>> I'm trying to use 'sed' version 3.02 with the following command line on
>> dos:
>> sed -e "s/ /\n/g" my_file
>
> This syntax is supported in GNU sed 4.x only.
>
> With sed 3.x you have to create a two line file cmd.sed:
>
> s/ /\
> /g
>
> (Yes, the first line ends with a backslash.)
> and run
>       sed -f cmd.sed my_file

What's wrong with

$ sed -e 's/ /\
/g' ...

?

Andreas.

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