Using sed to insert a newline

[MauryL]

Hi,

I'm sort of a newbie, and I have these long xml files to deal with. For clarity's sake, I want to add a newline at the end of each element.

So I want to replace /> with />newline. (With "newline" being an actual newline, not the word.)

I'm using the sed on Mac OSX's UNIX, not the apparently more helpful gnu sed. so \n doesn't mean newline here.

Best wishes,
Laurel

 

[feherke]

Hi

sed 's,/>,/>\n,g' /input/file

Works with GNU [tt]sed[/tt]. Try with yours, should work.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Annihilannic]

This works with Solaris' sed:

 sed 's,/>,/>\
> ,g' /tmp/testfile

Annihilannic.