Re: Be nice if you guys could explain what the \<newline> sequence is.

[Bob Proulx]

Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I can't guess for the life of me.  I've tried everything I can think of that
> you might possibly mean.  Please see the man sed page.

For what version of sed?  Please say the version of the sed manual
that you are looking at and repeat the text from the manual that is
unclear.

I looked at the manual on my Debian distribution:

  NAME
        sed - manual page for sed version 4.1.3

Then I looked at every reference to newline in the manual.  I did not
see anything that matched \<newline> anywhere in the manual.
Therefore I am guessing this is some formatting problem with your
version of the manual.

In any case, a newline sequence is:

  Oct   Dec   Hex   Char
  ----------------------
  012   10    0A    LF  '\n'

That is the character that separates lines in files.

Bob