> You mean perseus=; is your prompt? Strange. > > Actually sed is a line based command and should add a newline, imho. You can > simply use tr -d '\n'. > > There are several quoting differences between plan9 sed and linux sed and I > think the \+ operator doesn't work anyway in linux sed, but I might be wrong > with this statement.
ok, I remember that I had problems with the + operator with some linux command, but those seem to be gone on my system. the plan9 version of tr does not use '\n' of course but '\12' or '\x0a'.