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--- sed:new_line [2016/10/18 09:33] – created peter
+++ sed:new_line [2020/07/15 09:30] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 Neither **\s*** (as I would use in javascript and php) nor **\s\{3,\}** works.
-Note too that **\n** is not recognized as a new line. To get a new line **\'$'\n** must be used.
+Note too that **\n** is not recognized as a new line.  To get a new line **\'$'\n** must be used.
 To modify the .profile file.
@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 #sed -i .bak  's/^\(export[ ]*JAVA_HOME.*\)/#&\'$'\nexport\ JAVA_HOME=\/Users\/${USER}\/\.java_jdk_6\/soylatte16-i386-1\.0\.3/' ~/.profile
 #sed -i .bak  's/^\(export[ ]*JAVA_HOME.*\)/&\'$'\nexport\ PATH=${JAVA_HOME}\/bin:$PATH/' ~/.profile
-<code>
+</code>
 The two lines above did what I wanted but the second line did a backup of the modified ~/.profile.  So I came up with the next solution.
@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 \export\ JAVA_HOME=\/Users\/${USER}\/\.java_jdk_6\/soylatte16-i386-1\.0\.3\
 \export\ PATH=${JAVA_HOME}\/bin:$PATH/' ~/.profile
-<code>
+</code>
 The new line is achieved by ending a regex with \ and continuing it with \ on the next line. If there are white spaces in front of \ they will also appear in ~/.profile.