[BusyBox] sed questions.

Richard June rjune at imagestream-is.com
Fri Feb 2 21:27:25 UTC 2001


ssrat at mailbag.com wrote:

> On 2 Feb 2001, at 16:43, Richard June wrote:
> 
>> Could you perhaps repeat that?
> 
> 
> I (and Matt Kraai) said this:
> 
> echo HELLO | sed 's/LL/\
> /'
> 
> You said:
> 
> echo HELLO | sed 's/LL/\n/g'
> 
> Those are NOT the same....
> 
> Try the first and it'll work.  You don't need "g" on the end; that's a 
> carryover from vi (which needs it often).
> 
Yup, it works.  that's  a goofy way to do it though, what are the odds 
of \n actually being honored as an escape sequence?






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