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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:29, Seth Woolley wrote:
> Treeve,
>
> change the \ to be:
> sed 's|:version|2.9.05d|g; '\
>      's|:sysconfdir|/etc|g; '
>
> sed doesn't usually grok the newlines well, so you continuation them in
> bash instead of sed so that bash converts them to a normalized
> whitespace.  At least, that works for me.

For me, it also requires the addition of -e for each expression:
sed -e 's|:version|2.9.05d|g; '\
      -e  's|:sysconfdir|/etc|g; '
/.../

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