[ale] SED

Thorsten Hofrichter thholr at alef.gcsu.edu
Wed Dec 1 08:05:44 EST 1999


Thanks to everyone for their quick response, shortly after I sent it I figured
tr out and managed to use it instead, but now I know the sed way too and that
makes me feel a better. It is nice to see a list where people can ask general
questions and get them answered
Thorsten

Gregory McLean wrote:

> ->
> ->         No need for a file or cat (or whitespace, for that matter :)
> ->
> -> perl -le 'BEGIN{undef$/};$_=<>;y/\n//d;s/,/\n/g;print' filename
> same with sed:
> sed -e 's:,:\
> :g' <filename>
>
> Don't you love U*IX ? (hmm I need to do _this task_, here is at least
> three ways to do it you pick)
>
> Ok we have beat this to death :)
>
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