[ale] grrr, sed sucks!

[Danny Cox]

CB,

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 18:01, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Can anyone tell my this won't work:
> 
> sed     "s/></>^M</g"    content.xml

	sed unfortunatly expects a literal newline.  It doesn't know the '^M'
or '\015' escape sequences.  You could try:

	sed 's/<>/>
</g

and see what happens, or punt, and use something else like Perl, Python,
Awk, or C (shudder) ;-).

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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