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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:58:39AM CEST:
> address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to change some string in a text file with GNU SED(FOR
>> WINDOWS)
>> but it seems that '\n' is not work!!

> 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?)

No, but it would be nice if the manual also documented that \n is
portable in the BRE part of the s command (or, more generally, in
any BRE of sed), but _not_ in the substitution part of the s command,
where backslash newline is the only portable way.

Cheers,
Ralf