How do I use a new-line replacement in a BSD sed?

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Greetings, how do I perform the following in BSD sed?

sed 's/ /\n/g'

From the man-page it states that \n will be treated literally within a replacement string, how do I avoid this behavior? Is there an alternate?

I'm using Mac OS Snow Leopard, I may install fink to get GNU sed.

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4 Answers

Another way:

sed -e 's/ /\'$'\n/g'

See here.

user_2730840

For ease of use, i personally often use

cr="\n" 
# or (depending version and OS)
cr="
"

sed "s/ /\\${cr}/g"

so it stays on 1 line.

user_28857630
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