Re: do shell script- sed conundrum

• Subject: Re: do shell script- sed conundrum
• From: Le Stang Jean-Baptiste <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:23:28 +0100
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set theText to "Title: King KongTitle: Godzilla
Title: Mothra"
change "([^\\r\\n])Title: " into "\\1\\rTitle: " in theText with regexp

Jean-Baptiste LE STANG

Le 18 févr. 06 à 05:47, Jonathan Levi MD a écrit :

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:47:58 -0700, Gnarlodious <email@hidden> wrote:

Entity Eric Geoffroy spoke thus:

> Starting text

Title: King KongTitle: Godzilla

 > Title: Mothra

[...]
In general, sed is a linewise command and not well suited to multilines,
although there are ways around that limitation.

I think you can do it cleanly and compactly with sed, if you allow yourself tr:

tr '\r' '\n' < yourfile			|\
sed 's/\(.\)\(Title:\)/\1\n\2/g'	|\
tr '\n' '\r'

HTH,

Jonathan
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