Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a > large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with > spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to > remove. > > For the tabs, I try the following: > > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' <infile >outfile > > Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!?? > > For the hyphonation I try: > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' <infile >outfile > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected. > > I read the man page on sed, which pointed me to the backslash "special" > characters, but gave no examples of their use. I have tried to figure this > out looking at other examples, but am not making any headway. > > While I am positive that my problem is simple, I'm too much of an idiot to > figure it out on my own. Can someone point me in the right direction? >
In sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' <infile >outfile try replacing the '\t' with control-V followed by a tab. I'm not sure about how to unhyphenate words. Charles -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .