[ILUG] Another Scripting Question...

[Michael Armbrecht]

On 29/07/05, Conall O'Brien <conall+ilug at conall.net> wrote:

> My only problem is I'm trying to do a multi line replace in sed
> 
> 
> eg sed -e 's/notify yes;/notify no;\nmasters { $IP; }/'
> 
> 
> Everything works except for the newline control character I want for
> human readability (sed doesn't like the newline character in the
> replacement part of the expression.)
> 
> 
> I've also tried
> 
> sed -e 's/notify yes;/notify no; \
> masters { $IP; }/'

"\n" in replacement patterns has a special meaning to sed (restore by
the nth pattern previously matched). The only way I could make it work
is to enter the hex code of a line feed (x0A) into the replacement
pattern like this:
sed -e 's/notify yes;/notify no; \x0A masters { $IP;}/' 

HTH
Michael


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