On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jack Butchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have been googling for some time now and every command I tried fails. I > want to use sed from the command line or use it in a windows batch file to > split on a pipe delimited file, windows server. The examples have \n as the > carriage return code, but all that happens is the pipe is replaced by the > letter n. > > the file has a space between each line > > CALL|TITLE|URL LINK| > > CALL|TITLE|URL|LINK
Maybe your files have windows line endings, or you haven't accounted for the the examples assuming a unix shell, which handles quotes differently? Sine this is a Perl list, though, perhaps you would like to try using Perl instead of sed? Something along the lines of the following should work. perl -F'|' -lane 'print join "\n", @F unless /^\s*$/' # or perl -lpane 's/|/\n/' On Windows you may need to change the quotes around. HTH -- jay -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.downloadsquad.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!
