I have beat my head against numerous FAQs and pages of examples today,
and therefore ask for the kind and beneficent help of the assembled
multitude herein.

I need to check the 7th line of a short (15 lines) text file.
If the 1st character is not a B insert a newline

I have tried numerous variations on
sed 7,1 and am getting nowhere.

If you can help me, please do.

Thank you.

John Bartley K7AAY wrote:
User-Agent: G2/1.0
Windows; Firefox/2.0.0.12,

You are a GGer driving a Win Ff browser. Is this a homework assignment?

You need to do that with a what?

Sed Stream Editor is a /n/x app and programming language which has been
ported to Win and others.

The wiki has a good general entry on sed and its scripts, and has a
collection of reference links many of which have collections of more
links and scripts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed sed (Stream EDitor) refers to a Unix
utility for parsing text files and the programming language it uses - is
available today on most operating systems.

External links
Major sources for sed scripts, files, usage
Handy one-line sed scripts
Sed script archive
A home page for sed, some focus on Windows/DOS
Paper describing Turing machine in sed, and its universality
Turing machine in sed, the actual script
A calculator written in sed
Super-sed
sed Sokoban
sed Tutorial
The sed tutorial from Grymoire
GNU utilities for Win32
More on the address command and sub-matched replacements
Minised homepage
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

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Mike Easter

On Mar 10, 12:17 pm, "Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
No, a gen-u-wine work task.
That's right. The GNUWIN32 version is just dandy for many other
similar tasks, and this suggestion from a kinf gent in Germany solved
the problem...

sed "7 s/^[^B].*/\n&/"


Which I had pored over extensively before posting.

John Bartley K7AAY wrote:

Thanks for the feedback.



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John Bartley K7AAY <john.bartley@gmail.com> wrote in
news:16285a87-696f-4eea-8cc8-34581cec0ed8@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Sounds like about a 15 line c program to me.

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John Bartley K7AAY <john.bartley@gmail.com> wrote:

Fairly easy in UltraEdit
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