[ale] grrr, sed sucks!

[Geoffrey]

Use single quotes around the sed arg and use the '\n' for a newline.

try this:

sed 's/></>\n</g'

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> Can anyone tell my this won't work:
> 
> sed     "s/></>^M</g"    content.xml
> 
> I'm trying to convert every occurrence of  ><   (between xml tags) into  
>  >newline< in a staroffice content.xml file.  For some reason, it's not 
> working, and it's absolutely making me crazy.  I've check the FAQs, 
> docs, man page, etc... but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight?  Did I miss something obvious?
> 
> Thanks again,
> CB
> 
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