[ale] sed question

[Geoffrey]

What is it that you're trying to substitute for?  Looks to me like it's 
a space for a space????


David S. Jackson wrote:
> How would I solve the following problem:
> 
> ]$ for i in `cat sample.txt|sed -e 's/ /\ /g'; do
> 
>>echo $i
>>done
> 
> 
> where sample.txt is a simple text files with words and sentences
> and spaces between the words.  If I substitute an underscore
> 
> ]$ for i in `cat sample.txt|sed -e 's/ /_/g'`; do  
> 
>>echo $i
>>done
> 
> 
> then the text comes out as I want it, except that there's an
> underscore where I want a space.  However, when I try to add an
> escaped space so the shell will leave it alone, the escaped space
> never makes it to the echo statement (I guess), and I wind up
> with one single word per line.
> 
> What's the way around this problem?
> 
> TIA!
> 

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