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Nishant
Nishant

Reputation: 31

Break a long line into multiple lines on every occurrence of a pattern using sed/awk

I have a file having single line (actually a very long line) as shown below:

{worda:wordB:[{"wordc","active":true},}{:wordb:"words","wordt""wordu""wordv","active":true} and so, on.

In this line, one pattern that is common is '"active":true'. I am trying to break this single line into multiple lines based upon this pattern.

Required output: {worda:wordB:[{"wordc","active":true} {:wordb:"words","wordt""wordu""wordv","active":true}

I tried sed and awk, however, either it is resulting into a 0 Kb file after processing or same file as the input file.

I have Windows environment and using GNU sed/awk for the same.

Please help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 174

Answers (1)

CWLiu
CWLiu

Reputation: 4043

$ sed 's/true}.*{/true}\n{/' file 
{worda:wordB:[{"wordc","active":true}
{:wordb:"words","wordt""wordu""wordv","active":true}

Brief explanation, use sed to substitute true}.*{ to true}\n{, where .* would be treated any characters, and \n would be the newline character

Upvotes: 0

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