global replacements with sed

[George Robbins]

In article <49 at docwrk.UUCP> srh at docwrk.UUCP (Steven R. Houser) writes:
> I'm trying to use the sed editor to make global relacements, but I'm not
> having much luck.  I tried RTFM, but it doesn't give an example of what the
> script file should look like.  What I'm trying to do is replace occurrences 
> of ^L with .bp macros.
> 
> When I use the a script file containing:
> 
> 	/^L/s//\.bp
> 
> I get a message saying "sed: command line garbled".  What am I doing wrong?
> What should the script look like?  

sed -e '/^L/s//.bp/' should work, assuming it's a real control/l and not
some kind of caret followed by an L.

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