Re: POSIX compliant sed making newline character
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:49:07PM +0200, john doe wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to use the command provided at (1):
>
> $ sed '/pattern{N;N;a try\d10}' input-file
> sed: -e expression #1, char 0: unmatched `{'
Are you missing a second / character after the pattern?
Why are you obfuscating the command? Why not SHOW the actual command?
> As I understanded, I should make a newline before the right brace.
> I thought that '\d10' should do it but as shown above it does not.
I have no idea how you came up with that.
If you're doing this from bash, you could use bash's special $'...'
quoting to pass a newline encoded as \n .
Otherwise, put an ACTUAL newline inside the quotes. You know, by
pressing the Enter key. That's portable to every sh family shell.
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