How do I insert a new line in a search and replace statement?

Anonymous User 11/30/2004 12:30:48 PM

Better get the version from
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net.

The ones here do not substitute \\1, \\2, \\n, \\t, etc properly. like so:
s/example/for example:\\n\\t/
s/^default=.*partition(\\([0-9]*\\)).*$/SET PARTNUM=\\1/

Then you can reduce a lot of code.

LH 6/15/2004 10:43:39 PM

i am a little new to some of this but exactly what is meant by "machine path directory".also can this be used with a
WIN98 system?any particulars would be appreciated.thanx

james santinello 9/16/2003 8:16:15 AM

SED is an ancient *nix utility. Open source.
Maybe ya should do some of your own research before posting?

what I WOULD like to know is where the binary is. While I'm sure I can find it myself, a linke to where you got the binary from would be very helpfull.

simon6/5/2003 2:02:24 PM

Need to know the source of the code (who wrote it) and redistributions rights before this utility is useful ...

Jeffrey Cooke 4/11/2003 8:57:21 AM

what are the licensing terms of the sed software in the article?

william milbratz 2/14/2003 5:05:33 PM

A convoluted half fix to another convoluted and hobbled brain dead windows function. Why isn't there a simple "read" command as in unix. Does everything under the gui have to be half-a****?

DANIEL1/18/2002 4:44:29 PM

I am trying to write a Bacth file that delete old user profile directories from c:\\winnt\\profiles except for the system ones ie Default etc. How do i do this Can anyone help..

Indika Ratnayake 1/3/2002 12:48:29 AM

I use an *extremely* handy utility called TextPipe that does far more than just sed style search/replace, and from the command line. You can grab it at

www.crystalsoftware.com.au

I have found the author to be very responsive to support calls as well.

Simon Carter 6/25/2000 9:59:24 PM

I believe SED to be an absolutely critical tool in any network admin environment. We just would not be able to give users the service we do without SED running along inside all our bat files setting things up.

Anyway the article sure demystifies a lot of the syntax, but also adds to it. For eg we only have ever used the s function (substitute) and i was surprised to see all the others like c (change. The article would have been complete with examples of all the other functions.

Anyway good stuff.

Mark De Bortoli 1/16/2000 6:06:03 PM