[ILUG] sed

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:13, olearypj at rte.ie wrote:

>              Thanks for the reply, this is a bit of the output form "od -c
> email" where I thought the blank lines were, or at least thats what it
> looks when I look at the email as a text file.
>
> 0003560   :       r   o   o   t   @   a   u   s   -   c   i   t   y   .
> 0003600   c   o   m  \r  \n  \r  \n  \r  \n   O   S   C   A   R       7
> 0003620  \r  \n   1       0   7   5   3   0   U       7   4   0   8   9
>
> The \r \n characters between city.com & oscar 7 is where I thought the
> blank lines  were

I'm sure one of the many ILUG sedomists will give an authoritative solution,
but I'd try [\r\n] in your script.
But I've only used sed twice in my life.

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