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do shell script- sed conundrum

Subject: do shell script- sed conundrum
From: Jonathan Levi MD <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:47:10 -0500

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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