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Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character

From john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character
Date 2020-08-21 21:00 +0200
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On 8/21/2020 8:37 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 02:35:35PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> No.  Use $'...' instead of '...'.
>>
>> sed '/line1/{N;N;a line-to-add\n}' input-file
>
> Crap.  Of course I meant to write
>
> sed $'/line1/{N;N;a line-to-add\n}' input-file
>

Okay, it uses the same syntax as for a subshell '$()'.

Next step is to find a way in which I can use variable substitution.

I appriciate your help Greg.


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John Doe

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POSIX compliant sed making newline character john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-21 19:50 +0200
  Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-21 20:00 +0200
    Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-21 20:10 +0200
      Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-21 20:40 +0200
        Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-21 20:40 +0200
          Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-21 21:00 +0200
            Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-21 21:10 +0200
              Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-08-22 18:40 +0200
                Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-08-22 20:50 +0200
            Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-21 21:10 +0200

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