[accessiblelinux] the stream editor?
- From: <aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:04:27 -0400
Salutations,
does anyone here have experience using sed, the command-line stream editor?
Can sed use regular expressions in the replacement-string? I'm wading through
the documentation, but I'm having trouble digesting it all (it's very robust,
which is good once you master it, but adds to the initial learning curve).
I can find lots of applications to search for regular expressions, but I still
can't find anything to use regular expressions in the substitution field. I
want to run through a text file and find every carriage-return (designated "$"
IN MOST PROGRAMS) and substitute it with two carriage-returns (in openoffice,
the only place I can do this right now, it has to be "\n\n").
Before I commit myself to learning sed, I wanted to double-check it can do what
I want it to.
thank you:-)
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