Help with sed Syntax

[John Ruschmeyer]

In article <4785 at brl-smoke.ARPA> quilico at CECOM-2.arpa (Grace Quilico) writes:
>I'm have been trying (unsuccessfully) to determine what the correct syntax
>would be for sed to substitute a given expression with multiple newlines.
>For example, someone from an IBM environment ftp'd a file to me (VAX UNIX
>System 5.2.2) which is in an IBM printer format.  Except for the first line
>in the file, the beginning of each line in this file (it's over 4 megs) has
>a leading space, followed by the printer control character (e.g., 1 for
>top of page, 0 for double-space, - for triple-space, or a blank for space).
>(The first line has a + in column 1, and a 1 in column 2, followed by the
>data.)  It seems to me that sed would be the utility to use to convert
>these characters.

Hmm.. except for the first line of the file, why not just lose the leading
sapce in each line (something like sed 's/^ //') and run the remainder
through 'asa'.

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