How to replace '. ' with '.\n' using MacOS sed?

Asked Oct 20 '20 at 13:07

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sed 's/[.]  */&\n/g' text.txt

doesn't work on MacOS:

sed: 1: "s/.
": unterminated substitute pattern

How to fix it to run on MacOS?

asked Oct 20 '20 at 13:07

homocomputeris

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Does this answer your question? [Insert newline (\n) using sed](https://stackoverflow.com/a/46082547/3832970) – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 20 '20 at 13:10
It does answer, but does not work. – homocomputeris Oct 20 '20 at 13:17
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Try `sed "s/\\./&"$'\\\n'"/g" file` – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 20 '20 at 13:21
`sed: 1: "text.txt": command a expects \ followed by text` – homocomputeris Oct 20 '20 at 13:26
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The best you can do is install a GNU `sed` and enjoy a far bugfree tool. – Wiktor Stribiżew Oct 20 '20 at 13:28
or use `perl -pe 's/\.\h*\K/\n/g'` – Sundeep Oct 20 '20 at 13:48

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