On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 22:18:20 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>
>The "grep" and "awk" commands don't match \n to end-of-line on omvs, or on 
>linux for that matter.
>
"awk" certainly does.  To wit:
user@OS/390.24.00: cat awknl                                                   
#! /bin/sh -x

awk 'BEGIN {
    String = "First line\nSecond line.\n"

    # Show that "\n" is a line end.
    printf( "%s", String )

    # show that "\n" matches line end.
    print( match( String, "\n" ) )
}'
user@OS/390.24.00: sh awknl
First line
Second line.
11
user@OS/390.24.00: 

-- gil

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