[nylug-talk] Help with sed expression?

[Paul Robbins]

My try to try to escape you backslashes.

s/\\f\\n/\\n/g

That is a quick suggestion, i will mess with it in a few and see if i can
come up with something better.

On 8/22/07, R. Mariotti <r.mariotti at fdcx.net> wrote:
>
> Luggers:
>
> Quick one for you to help a tired brain:
>
> I have a series of text files that all end with a x0c0a which is causing
> havoc with my printers (extra page output).
>
> > 0000420 4f47 4e20 2059 3331 3330 2d37 3639 3031
> > 0000430 0c0a
> > 0000432
>
> I plan on filtering it with sed to search for the \f\n and replace it
> with just a \f and send it off.
>
> However, I cannot get it to work!!!!
>
> my sed line look like:    s/\f\n/\n/g
>
> Any ideas what I need to change to make it work???
>
>
> Thanks all,
>
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