sed carriage return

[Mag0007]

How do I get a return in sed?

trying replacing a space with carraige return
echo "hello mr" | sed -e 's/ /\n'

\n does not work.

 

[p5wizard]

first note: \n is a newline, not a carriage return...

is sed a requirement?

otherwise

tr ' ' '\n'

or if your sed supports the following:

sed 's/ /\   
/'

try googling for "sed newline"

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Mag0007]

p5wizard:

thanks! no, sed is not required.

However your sed code does not work, I get a parse error.

And yes, I have been googling around, and found notihng.

If possible I can even use a perl one liner.

 

[p5wizard]

google for

sed newline faq

it should provide plenty of sed help

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Chacalinc]

add an / at the end:

echo "hello mr" | sed -e 's/ /\n[red]/[/red]'

Cheers.

 

[PHV]

something like this ?
echo "hello mr" | tr -s ' ' '\n'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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