[Gllug] simple sed question
Bruce Richardson
itsbruce at uklinux.net
Mon Oct 15 13:06:19 UTC 2001
On 10/15/01, 12:09:10 PM, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug]
simple sed question :
> >not too sure about the sed, but watch out with the ^M, to reproduce it
(in
> >vi at least) you need to use:
> >
> >Ctrl-V
> >Ctrl-M
> Also note that despite its name, sed is line based, rather than truly
> stream based, so you can't match patterns across lines, and hence its
> probably not the right tool to use here.
GNU sed supports a newline in the regexp, as do some other
implementations, and has no maximum line length so you can match across
as many lines as you care to.
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Bruce
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