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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have to admit to little time using the tool. To my admittedly limited kno= wledge, this appears to be a bug: [Reputation: Disabled] sed with wildcard matching ________________________________ I have a DOS file with several record sequences as follows: ... Online 1234 Main St Anytown ... I'm trying to edit the file with the following sed command; sed -z 's/Online\r\n\(.*\)\r\n\(.*\)/Online\r\n\1 \2/g' test.txt but there is no change in the stdout stream, much to my surprise. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide. I am trying to remove the newline after the 2nd record following "Online", = a street address. I have verified the file contents using sed --debug functionality. I have since solved the problem with an alternate sed programming methodolo= gy. sed --version reports 4.9. Thanks for your time and consideration. John Larew 860-917-0225 John.Larew@outlook.com --_000_DM6PR13MB37714796843FA2E994DC689F9C0E9DM6PR13MB3771namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have to admit to little time using the tool. To my admittedly limited kno= wledge, this appears to be a bug:

3D"Reputation:=
sed with wildcard= matching
I have a DOS file with several record sequ= ences as follows:

...
Online
1234 Main St
Anytown
...

I'm trying to edit the file with the following sed command;

sed -z 's/Online\r\n\(.*\)\r\n\(.*\)/Online\r\n\1 \2/g' test.txt

but there is no change in the stdout stream, much to my surprise.

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

I am trying to remove the newline after the 2nd record following "Onli= ne", a street address.

I have verified the file contents using sed --debug functionality.

I have since solved the problem with an alternate sed programming methodolo= gy.

sed --version reports 4.9.

Thanks for your time and consideration.


John Larew
860-917-0225
= John.Larew@outlook.com
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