[ale] SED

[michael d. ivey]

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 05:01:51PM -0500, Gregory McLean wrote:
> -> On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:30:53PM -0500, Thorsten Hofrichter wrote:
> 
> -> > I need to use sed for this and have tried doing 
> -> > cat filename | sed s/,/\\n/g
> -> > I have read man pages but dont understant why that would not work
> -> > Any ideas??
> -> 
> -> $ cat filename | sed -e 's/,/\
> -> /'
> don't forget the 'g'lobal switch :)

you know, i did it once without /g, and then fixed it, and forgot to
put it in the email.  to confirm:

$ cat filename | sed -e 's/,/\
/g'

thanks gregory.

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