Re: I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

Well, it's time to sum up the efforts of all you good folks out there who
tried to relieve my ignorance. I want to thank you all for the information
(even Aaron was helpful) you imparted and the spirit of helpfulness for
what was clearly an off topic post.

First <cntrl-v> is a very nice new trick to know about, but it only worked
for the tab. Cntrl-v cntrl-j did, in fact, produce the expected line feed,
but bash then passed it as two lines and sed didn't get what it expected. 

My final solution to the -<newline> was to use beav to edit the file and
do a search on 2D 0A replacing it with nothing. This worked very well,
although it isn't the sed solution.

It seems that none of the solutions presented allowed sed to find and
replace the -<newline> character pair. From what I have read and tried
elsewhere some of the presented solutions should have worked. Reading up
on bash, I found the variable NEWLINE, but the line 'sed s/-$NEWLINE//g'
produced no better results than any of the other suggestions. I must
assume from this that sed treats the newline character as a special
character that it does not use for comparisons. While this is only
conjecture it fits what several folks said with respect to this "special"
character.

In any case, while it wasn't sed, I have a solution that gets me down the
road, and I enjoyed the discussion very much.

Thanks to all who helped. I will do my part to keep my comments more on
topic in the future ;-)

Luck,

Dwarf
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