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Name: poornimajayan
Date: November 3, 2009 at 15:33:23 Pacific
OS: KSH
Product: Creative Vado pocket video cam pink camcorder
Subcategory: Software Problems
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In my file, I want to search all occurrences of '/>' and replace the same by a new line '\n' . How can I do this with sed?



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Name: poornimajayan
Date: November 3, 2009 at 15:43:30 Pacific
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Slight correction. I need to add a new line '/n' to all ocurrences of '>' .I don't need replace.


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Name: poornimajayan
Date: November 4, 2009 at 06:03:42 Pacific
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I did with

nawk -v RS="<" 'length()==0{next}{print "<" $0}' test1.txt >>test11.txt


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