Re: sed replacing newline

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 14:42 31 May 2003, dbrett <dbrett tcn net> wrote:
| I have a file where all the text was put on one line.   I noticed where
| there should have been a new line there was a ")" just before.  I tried to
| use sed to add a newline.  I could not get it to work.
| 
| cat junk.txt | sed s/\)/\n/g
| 
| I tried quoting adding quotes.  Does anybody know if it is possible to do
| this with sed?
| 
| I managed to accomplish what I wanted with
| 
| cat junk.txt | sed s/\)/\+/g | tr \+ \n

sed 's/)/\
/g' junk.txt >notjunk.txt

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