At 2008-07-20T02:45:51+02:00, Roland Smith wrote: > Insert a newline in front of every < : > > gsed -e "s/</\n</g" <infile >outfile > > Note that this requires GNU sed. It won't work with BSD sed.
It is possible with native `sed' if the newline character in the replacement string is properly escaped: two backslashes, followed by Ctrl-V, and then the newline. [/home/raghu]% which sed /usr/bin/sed [/home/raghu]% echo '<hello>world</hello><hello>next world</hello>' | sed 's/</\\ </g' <hello>world </hello> <hello>next world </hello> However, this doesn't do what the OP wanted: "world", etc., must appear on separate lines. Here is a second approximation: [/home/raghu]% cat foo.sed s/</\ </g s/>/>\ /g [/home/raghu]% cat foo.html <hi><hello>world</hello>between hells...<hello>next world</hello></hi> [/home/raghu]% sed -f foo.sed foo.html | sed '/^$/d' <hi> <hello> world </hello> between hells... <hello> next world </hello> </hi> Perhaps the pipe to remove blank lines can be incorporated into `foo.sed', but I don't know how. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
