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Re: SED question: entering a blank line above a character searched

Cyrus Kriticos

2007-12-28, 7:31 am

Kompu Kid wrote:
> After finding a ":", I would like to enter a blank line above the line
> that the colon is found.
>
> How do I do this with SED?

[GNU sed]

sed 's/\(.*:.*\)/\n\1/' filename

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