Re: sed newlines

[Gary Smithe <gary.smithe@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the response.

That seems to have done it..  Works with the versions of sed in both
the FC2 and FC3.

GS


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:41:25 -0600, Tom Conder <blitz@gazpacho.net> wrote:
> I tried this sed command and got the same response. I've had better luck
> with the 'substitute' command in sed. So I rewrote it slightly.
> Hopefully, this will give you your intended result:
> 
> sed -i 's/# cache_effective_user/&\ncache_effective_user
> squid\ncache_effective_group squid/' squid.conf
> 
> 
> Gary Smithe wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >     I'm trying to use a sed one-liner to edit a file in-place
> >(squid.conf).  Using Fedora Core 3, the following line works just
> >fine:
> >
> >sed -i '/# cache_effective_user/a cache_effective_user
> >squid\ncache_effective_group squid' /etc/squid/squid.conf
> >
> >On a Fedora Core 2 box, though (with sed 4.0.8), the newlines do not
> >get interpreted, and all the lines run together, instead of giving me
> >2 new lines, I get 1.
> >
> >I've tried different options and google searches, to no avail.
> >
> >Does anyone know how to do this with sed where "\n" doesn't work?
> >Optionally, perl will also work fine for me, but I need to append
> >after regex'ing a line, and all I've found in perl one-liners is
> >replacing text.
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Gary Smithe
> >
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> Tom Conder                                       http://www.gazpacho.net/
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