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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN