In article <2056 at kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu at serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) asks: >in a sed replacement expression, how can i insert a newline character? Bourne shell and derivatives: sed 's/foo/bar\ bletch/' C shell and derivatives: sed 's/foo/bar\\ bletch/' This is on a Sun3 running SunOS 4.1.1 if it matters. Have a nice day, Hans Mulder hansm at cs.kun.nl