Re: sed3.02 win32

[Andreas Schwab]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

|> > From: "Christoph SIEBERT" <address@hidden>
|> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:37:03 +0200
|> > 
|> > FYI:
|> > It appears that there is still a problem with the newline "\n" in the sed 
version 3.02 for win32.
|> > The command I tried to run is
|> > cmd> set | grep -i "^PATH=" | sed -e s/;/\n/
|> > but a newline could not be inserted where the semicolon separator was 
found.
|> 
|> Sed doesn't support the \n notation.  I'm guessing that on Unix, the
|> shell converts that into a literal newline character.

The Bourne shell does not do that either.  If you want a newline you have
to insert it literally (directly or via variable substitution).

Andreas.

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