sed newline bug (sed 3.2)

[galeran]

Sed version 3.2 does recognize the \n sequence in the s/// command's
regexp part, but doesn't recognize neither \n or \<newline> sequence in
the substitution part of the s/// command or the dest part of the y//
command, although in the sed manual, it is specifically stated that
newline sequence in supported in the substitution part of the s///
command.

 

For Example, the following command:

 

sed -e N -e 's/\n/\n\n/g' 

 

just insert plain n's and not newline character. 

 

 

Eran