I'm trying to substitute each occurences of the text <<break>> in a file with CR/LF using sed.the syntax I used is similar to what is shown below.

#sed "s/<<break>>/^M//g" breakfile

but this does not do what I want instead it replaces the occurances of <<break>> with ^M.

Can someone help me in solving this out.

Thanks in advance

Replace the ^M with ctrl-v, ctrl-m

That is: press the ctrl key and type vm

Thanks a lot ,that works fine

Tlbettip

Great! -- glad to help.