[Novalug] Command line search and replace tool - GNU sed?
James Ewing Cottrell III
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat Sep 28 19:26:17 EDT 2013
What you also failed to notice is that there is a space after the hello.
Try: s/ *FOO */\nBAR\n/g
JIM
On 9/14/2013 10:25 PM, John Christopher wrote:
> I need a command line tool that will search and replace in a text file, and will *not* do regexp translations.
>
> GNU sed does *almost* what I want:
>
> $ cat sedscript.txt
> s/FOO/\nBAR\n/g
>
> $ cat myfile.txt
> hello FOO world
>
> $ sed -f sedscript.txt myfile.txt
> hello
> BAR
> world
>
> In the example above, what I want is to have the following output:
>
> $ sed -f sedscript.txt myfile.txt
> hello \nBAR\n world
>
> I want to avoid having to change \n to \\n in sedscript.txt (it gets difficult to read).
>
> Is there a way to instruct sed to *not* translate regexp metacharacters (such as \n) and leave it as is?
>
> Is there another command line tool that will do ultra-simple search and replace and *not* do regexp translations?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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