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Subject: RE: Can't use special characters \n or \r
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:47:36 +0100
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Mark J. Reed wrote on 30 July 2008 14:25:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>>  Normal grep and sed don't speak C-style escape chars.
> 
> Actually, sed does:

  You omitted a vital qualifier from my earlier post ...

>> it all gets tangled up in the matching against end-of-line $ anchor

... without which you are not accurately representing what I was saying
there.

> $ sed -e 's/\r//' foo.txt | od -c
> 0000000   T   h   i   s       i   s       a       t   e   s   t   .  \n
> 0000020

  Yes, very good.  Now try it with \n.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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