system command with \n (new line character)

[Bruce Easton]

James - I don't see the "s" in the version you have in processing.

On 8/15/17 5:29 PM, James Flanagan via Filepro-list wrote:
> Redhat 6.8 Enterprise
> Filepro 5.8.01.06D6
>
> It has been a very busy day of programming….
>
> I have a file that instead of having new line characters, it instead has a comma in place of where each newline character should be
>
> I am trying to use the following command:
>
> ::unix="cat /tmp/addv/"{40<"| sed"<chr("39"){"/,/\\n/g"{chr("39”)<">/tmp/addv/tmp":
>
> and I have tried with up to 4 backslashes (\\\\) and it does not work.  I have also tried the following:
>
> ::unix="cat /tmp/addv/"{40<"| sed"<chr("39"){"/,/“{chr(“10”){"/g"{chr("39”):
>
> which does not work either.
>
> from the command line outside of filepro, the following command works perfectly:
>
> cat 900022 | sed 's/,/\n/g' >tmp
>
> How can i get filepro to properly recognize that i am trying to send a new line character instead of it trying to implement one?  Thank you very much,
>
>
>
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