On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:24:52 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi Camaleón, > >>> I have a bunch of files where I need an extra line after a <pre> code. >>> So I need to change <pre>CRLF (or <pre>LF) to <pre>CRLFCRLF. >>> >>> Which toool can I use for that, I can't remember which tool is a good >>> one for this and google is no help. >>> I am not fluent in any of the programming languages but I do write >>> bash scripts. > >> I bet you can do this with a bash script for looping into the text >> files and then replacing the text with "sed". >> >>Yep, something like this: >> >>http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-replace-string-words-in-many-files/ > > By looking at my UnixUtils list which I have on my Windows machine I had > found sed as well. :-) Have been experimenting some with it but... > > linbobo:~/sedtest# sed 's_<pre>_<post>_' <original.txt >new.txt > linbobo:~/sedtest# less new.txt > > And indeed I will see <post> on that line instead of <pre> but... > > linbobo:~/sedtest# sed 's_\n<pre>\n_\n<pre>\n\n_' <original.txt >new.txt > linbobo:~/sedtest# less new.txt > > Will not create a new line after <pre> :-(
Hum... not sure if this what you need, but it should be something like: sm01@stt008:~$ echo "<pre>" | sed -e "s/<pre>/<pre>\n/g" <pre> sm01@stt008:~$ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.16.16.25...@gmail.com
